The Juan José Peña Scholarship
This $500 scholarship from NMTIA will help an NMTIA member in good standing to attend their first national interpreter-translator conference. To be eligible, members must fulfill two conditions: (1) they must not have attended a national conference in the past, and (2) they must commit to taking NMTIA materials to the conference and reporting back on their experience to membership. All members in good standing are welcome to apply, but preference will be given to interpreters and translators who work in languages other than Spanish.
Click here to apply by November 30, 2024.
The Sandra O. Caldwell Scholarship
This scholarship is dedicated to the memory of Sandra O. Caldwell, certified court interpreter for the state of New Mexico. Sandra was a proponent of guiding fledgling court interpreters, “baby interpreters” as she would fondly call them, into the profession, and she was a mentor to many certified court interpreters.
The purpose of this scholarship is to help aspiring court interpreters pay for the oral portion of New Mexico’s court certification exams. Any NMTIA member in good standing is eligible to receive it, but preference will be given to applicants who have professional experience in the legal or interpreting fields. Applicants must register to take the simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation, and sight translation exams on the same date. Proof of registration for the court certification exam must be submitted.
Application details will be posted here when they are finalized. In the meantime, please consider making a (non-tax-deductible) contribution to help fund this scholarship: