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We develop and administer a national, valid, credible, and vendor-neutral certification program for healthcare interpreters in the U.S.
CCHI is a national nonprofit organization founded in July 2009, operated as a 501(c)(6) corporation.
Our purpose is to develop and administer a comprehensive national interpreter certification program in order to assess medical interpreters’ competence and to help ensure quality of interpreting in any healthcare setting and in any modality of interpreting. CCHI brings together medical interpreters, representatives from national and regional non-profit interpreting associations, language companies, community-based organizations, educational institutions, healthcare providers, and advocates for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).
CCHI programs include the Core Certification Healthcare Interpreter™ (CoreCHI™), CoreCHI-Performance™ (CoreCHI-P™), and Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ (CHI™) certifications for interpreters, and CEAP (Continuing Education Accreditation Program) for educators/trainers.
CCHI is the first and only organization certifying healthcare interpreters in the U.S. to receive NCCA accreditation for its certification programs.
CCHI is governed by elected volunteer Commissioners, many of whom are practicing medical interpreters and CCHI certificants. The Commissioners employ staff to manage operations and rate exams. CCHI contracts with a testing company and various testing sites across the U.S. to administer CCHI exams.
Our Commissioners
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Vonessa P. Costa, CoreCHI-Performance™
Sr. Director, Quality & Member Engagement,
Paras and Associates/Health Care Interpreter Network (FL); CCHI Chair
Term: Oct 2023 - Oct 2026Vonessa Costa is Sr. Director of Quality & Member Engagement at Paras and Associates/Health Care Interpreter Network since June 2021. Prior to this position, Vonessa directed language access initiatives at Cambridge Health Alliance and was director of the Cross Cultural Communication Institute at CCCS, Inc., where she specialized in interpreter education and provider training in intercultural communication. Vonessa is a CoreCHI™ practitioner credentialed by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters. She was secretary of the Forum on the Coordination of Interpreter Services (FOCIS) and a member of the America’s Essential Hospitals Education Committee. Vonessa is a graduate of the America’s Essential Hospitals Fellows Program, and a 2019 MassAHEC Tony Windsor Award recipient for advocacy in language access and the professionalization of healthcare interpreters.
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Danilo Formolo, M.B.A., CDM, CHI-Spanish
Assistant Vice President of Language Access, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Atrium Health (Charlotte, NC)
Term: Oct 2021 - Oct 2024Danilo Formolo is the Assistant Vice President of Language Access, part of the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Atrium Health. Danilo is entrusted with leading and transforming one of the largest and most robust healthcare language access programs in the country. The nationally recognized program features over 110 interpreters that primarily serve the Charlotte, NC region, where Atrium Health is headquartered. In addition to operational leadership, strategic initiatives include building a large, scalable infrastructure through the use of technology to increase access, optimize efficiencies, and contain costs on a system level. Danilo earned two Bachelor’s Degrees from UNC Charlotte, plus an MBA. Danilo is well known in the industry and has delivered conference presentations around the country on numerous occasions. Danilo is also responsible for organizing the 2nd largest medical interpreter conference in the U.S., drawing 400 interpreters from the Carolinas and beyond. He also co-leads the Carolinas Association of Medical Interpreter Leaders (CAMIL), a consortium of healthcare language access leaders dedicated towards advancing the profession. Danilo has also served on various boards and committees within Atrium Health and the local community, including the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte.
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Andrea R. Henry, CHI™-Spanish
Spanish interpreter, researcher,
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (GA)
Term: Oct 2021 - Oct 2024Andrea has enjoyed working professionally in the field of healthcare interpreting for 25 years. Most of those years have been in face-to-face interpreting of dialogue in both adult and children’s healthcare settings. Interpreting on the frontlines is her biggest joy. Additionally, Andrea has learned a great deal from many roles in this field having worked as a freelance interpreter, full-time OPI interpreter, interpreter coordinator for two healthcare organizations, interpreter trainer, full-time F2F interpreter in a level 1 trauma center, and interpreter researcher. She has extensive experience in written translation (e.g., English > Spanish home care instructions), public speaking, and mentoring novice interpreters. Andrea’s areas of interest and expertise include specialization (e.g., pediatric cancer, pediatric heart defects, etc.), outside-the-box methods for navigating technical speech and sociolinguistic bumps, and value-added scripting for improved encounter interaction. Andrea is strongly invested in moving our field forward by sharing strategies that improve communication and the patient’s clinical outcome, as well as raise our perceived value. Finally, Andrea is the principal investigator on grant-funded research on development and validation of a tool that measures complexity and mental fatigue in the healthcare encounter.
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H. Valerie Huang, M.A., CHI™-Mandarin
Language Services Manager, Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH); CCHI Treasurer
Term: Oct 2021 - Oct 2024Valerie Huang joined Nationwide Children’s Hospital as a Language Services program manager in 2011. Originally from Taiwan, Valerie holds a B. A. in International Business and M.A. in Human Resource Development. She later completed a 2-year Alternative Licensure Program for Foreign Language Education, and found her passion in heritage language teaching and interpreter education. During her career, Valerie has been involved in the development of interpreter training curriculum and capacity building projects focused on grassroots leadership and workforce development. In addition, Valerie has extensive experience in developing and presenting programs on cultural competency and cultural sensitivity care; she has worked with healthcare and social service providers to incorporate cultural understanding into their practice. Because of her drive and dedication to serve the community, Valerie received the Community Action Award from the Ohio Commission of Minority Health in 2017. Prior to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, she served as the program director for Asian American Community Services, and was an international staff administrator for Citibank in Taiwan. As a Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ and trainer of healthcare and community interpreters, she speaks widely at conferences across Ohio and the U.S. and is a frequent contributor for community social service projects in central Ohio.
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Francisco J. Martinez, M.A., CHI™-Spanish
Language Coach & Medical Interpreter, Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
Term: Oct 2021 - Oct 2024Francisco Martinez, born in Mexico City, raised in San Luis Potosí, joined Children’s Mercy Kansas City as a staff medical interpreter in 2014. His position now is a Medical and Culture Language Coach who works with bilingual residents to ensure that encounters with Spanish speaking families are safe and free of misunderstandings, and to improve residents’ communicative skills, and understanding of Spanish-speaking patients’ cultural beliefs. At the beginning of his career, Francisco worked in the hospitality industry and ran a school of English as a foreign language (EFL) and a translation/interpretation firm. He did technical translations, conference and business interpreting, and video dubbing for companies such as Cummins Engines, Aceros San Luis, Mexinox, Cigarrera la Moderna, and the Secretaria de Comercio Exterior among others. In the ‘90s, Francisco worked for Richmond Publishing, the EFL/ESL branch of Santillana Editores, supervised and trained new EFL instructors, taught TOEFL preparation courses at Instituto Angloamericano in Leon, Guanajuato, and was the Academic Chair of Instituto De La Salle de Leon, from kindergarten to high school. In 2001-2013, he was a visiting lecturer of Spanish at Northwest Missouri State University, faculty at their Spanish study-abroad program, and the interim chair of the Foreign Language Program. Francisco is a strong advocate for high quality language access to health care for all, and for the exploration and creation of new roles for the professional, certified healthcare interpreters.
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Shawn M. Norris, Ed K-12, NIC, CoreCHI-P
President of Hello Interpreters (Saint Augustine, FL)
Term: Oct 2023 - Oct 2026Shawn M. Norris, Ed K-12, NIC, CoreCHI-P, is an accomplished professional with over fifteen years of success in business operations, interpretation, and training. Currently, President of Hello Interpreters, Shawn has worked as the Coordinator of Interpreting Services, the Coordinator for the ADA, and Section 1557 at Flagler Health+ in St. Augustine, Florida. Being raised by Deaf parents, he developed fluency in Sign Language, and his certifications from RID and CCHI further validate his interpreting skills. Shawn has a rich history of leadership, training, and innovation, with experiences ranging from coordinating interpreting services to public speaking on language access in healthcare. His love for the Deaf community extends into his volunteer work, including serving as President of the Florida Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
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Johanna Parker, M.A., FCCI, CHI™-Spanish
Lead Interpreter for Education and Training, Stanford Health Care (San Francisco, CA); CCHI Vice Chair
Term: Oct 2021 - Oct 2024Johanna Parker holds an M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (Spanish <>English) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) and is a federally and California certified court interpreter and CCHI Certified Healthcare Interpreter™. She is Lead Interpreter for Education and Training at Stanford Health Care, a freelance conference interpreter, and a contract seminar interpreter for the U.S. Department of State. Johanna trains interpreters around the country and is an adjunct professor at MIIS, where she teaches medical interpreting. She also educates providers on the importance of interpreter services and language access as a matter of health equity. She was awarded the California Healthcare Interpreting Association’s Trainer of the Year award in 2015.
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Mateo C. Rutherford, M.A., MATI, CHI™-Spanish
Spanish interpreter (Berkeley, CA); CCHI Secretary
Term: Oct 2023 - Oct 2024Mateo Rutherford worked as a manager in the Interpreting & Translation Services Dept. at UCSF Health for 11 years. He holds a master’s degree in Integrative Biology from the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and a master’s degree in Spanish Interpretation & Translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has worked as a freelance Spanish interpreter since 1987 throughout Latin America, Europe, Asia and the United States. He specializes in topics related to the life sciences and technology. His teaching experience, in both Spanish and English, includes molecular biology, disease prevention, document translation, medical and conference interpreting. He has taught at UC Berkeley; Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo in Guayaquil, Ecuador; City College of San Francisco and under contract with the CDC in Puerto Rico, Honduras and throughout the US. Mateo has also lectured at the Schools of Medicine and Nursing at UCSF on language access and health. Mateo is the past Chair of the CCHI Commission, a Spanish CERTIFIED HEALTHCARE INTERPRETER™ and a Spanish conference interpreter.
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Yasha Saebi, M.S., CoreCHI-P
Medical & Legal Interpreter, Linguist, NS Analyst (Ashburn, VA)
Term: Oct 2023 - Oct 2026Yasha Saebi is a translator and interpreter with more than 20 years of experience. She has a BA in translation from Tehran University, a BS in biology/genetics and an MS in forensic science/DNA from George Mason University, and a master’s certificate in national security policy studies from Georgetown University. She is a member of the International Medical Interpreters Association’s Medical Terminology Committee and the International Association for Identification.
Yasha has worked as a Farsi linguist evaluating proficiency tests and recruiting interviews. She has also worked as an on-site interpreter for Georgetown University Hospital and other hospitals in the Washington, DC area. She has been working as an over-the-phone interpreter for a decade, assisting medical providers, state courts, and government agencies. She has experience in medical, legal, and government document translation. She is the ATA Medical Division Administrator, the ATA Science & Technology Division and the ATA Government Division Nominating Committee member and chair. She has been an active member of the Boren Forum (national security alumni students) assisting the Custom and Border Control Agency CBP with linguistic services and helped them with the latest refugees’ crisis.
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Fabio de Oliveira Torres, MACCM, CoreCHI
Director of Education & Recruitment,
Translation & Interpretation Network (TX)
Term: Oct 2022 - Oct 2025Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Fabio Torres has been an interpreter since 1989. His passion for this profession started in Rio when he was interpreting for Americans and other English-speaking medical professionals at medical clinics in the slums of Rio. After moving to the US to pursue an undergraduate and graduate education in 1996, Fabio started working at Catholic Charities Fort Worth in the language services program – Translation & Interpretation Network (TIN) and continued to work for TIN as a social enterprise for 20+ years.
During his tenure, his passion for language, culture, and interpreter education increased as he worked through the local parishes to create and implement healthcare programs and deliver health services in rural and urban communities in North Texas. Fabio holds a Master of Arts degree in Church and Community Ministries from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth (TX), and a BA in Religion, with a minor in Psychology from North Greenville University (SC).
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Mara Youdelman, J.D., LL.M.
Managing Director for Federal Advocacy, National Health Law Program (NHeLP) (Washington, DC)
Term: Oct 2023 - Oct 2026Mara Youdelman is Managing Attorney of the National Health Law Program’s Washington DC Office. She has worked at NHeLP since August 2000 on issues including Medicaid, language access, racial and ethnic disparities, and data collection. She also is a Commissioner of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters. Her leadership with CCHI has rapidly elevated a national, valid, credible, and vendor-neutral certification program for healthcare interpreters.
Mara works on a range of administrative and legislative policy issues and conducts trainings nationwide on language access and collection of racial, ethnic and primary language data. Mara also directed the National Language Access Advocacy Project, funded by the California Endowment to increase awareness of language access issues at the federal level. In this role, Mara coordinated a national coalition of stakeholders to develop a consensus-driven agenda to improve policies and funding for quality health care for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Mara is co-author of a number of reports on language access. These include NHeLP’s Ensuring Linguistic Access in Health Care Settings: Legal Rights and Responsibilities and Language Services Resource Guide for Health Care Providers. She also co-authored a series of “promising practices reports” for providing language services for The Commonwealth Fund. Mara is recognized as a national expert on language access, particularly regarding paying for language services in Medicaid and legal issues. Mara has participated on advisory panels for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the National Committee for Quality Assurance; the American Medical Association’s Ethical Force Program; the National Quality Forum; and The Joint Commission. She most recently served as a consultant to The Joint Commission as they developed new accreditation standards for hospitals on language access and cultural competency and co-authored The Joint Commission’s Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: A Roadmap for Hospitals.
Mara earned her LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center in 2000, her J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1996, and her B.A. from Tufts University in 1991.
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Alegna Zavatti, CHI-Spanish
Director Interpreter Services, Boston Medical Center (MA)
Term: Oct 2022 - Oct 2025Alegna has been the Director of Interpreter Services at Boston Medical Center since 2019, one of the oldest interpreter services departments in MA. In her role as director, she manages and oversees more than 50 employees and ensures language access to 25% of our patient population via in-person, phone and video interpretation. Alegna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Conference Interpretation from Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 2011, she moved to Boston and completed Boston University’s Medical, Legal and Community Interpreting Certificate Program. After completing this training, she worked with different regional agencies and the Office of Court Interpreter Services of Massachusetts. In 2013, Alegna became a Spanish Certified Healthcare Interpreter with CCHI. She has been a board member of the Forum on the Coordination of Interpreter Services (FOCIS) since 2021. This is a nation-wide organization that aims at creating best practices for hospital-based interpreter services departments and enhance language access.
CCHI’s Annual Reports & Policies
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CCHI Staff
Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHI™, ICE-CCP, CCHI Executive Director
Natalya Mytareva, a Russian interpreter/translator, CCHI’s Executive Director and one of the founding Commissioners, started her career as instructor of various Russian/English interpretation and translation courses at Volgograd State University (Russia) in 1991. From 2000 to 2013, she was Communications Director at the International Institute of Akron, a non-profit refugee resettlement agency in Ohio. She is the author and instructor of various courses for interpreters of languages of lesser diffusion. Natalya has delivered a variety of presentations for healthcare and social service providers on cultural competence, working with interpreters, and serving newly resettled refugee populations. She holds a combined BA/MA degree from Volgograd State University (Russia) in Philology and Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
Eddie Alnadi, Customer Management Services Specialist (CMSspecialist@cchicertification.org)
Eddie Alnadi has been involved with CCHI’s certification program in various capacities since 2012. He has worked as a linguist for over 20 years in multiple countries and settings. He has been living in the USA since 1988. Fluent in English and Arabic (several dialects).
Yamileth Becker, Registrar (apply@cchicertification.org)
Yami Becker has started her career as an allied healthcare specialist, then earned her MD degree in the Dominican Republic. She was a Spanish medical interpreter and translator in North Carolina and Texas as well as a remote interpreter in 2004-13. She has been involved with CCHI’s certification program in various capacities since 2011.
Shawn Morgenlander, CHI-Spanish, CCHI Administrative Specialist
Shawn Morgenlander joined the CCHI staff as Administrative Specialist in 2022. She is a CHI-Spanish certificant who learned the ins and outs of healthcare interpreting as a hospital staff member in North Carolina. She continues to work as a remote interpreter, and sometimes brings her interest in language to creative projects such as literary translation and adaptation for the stage.
Jorge U. Ungo, Language Access Advocate
For over two decades, Jorge U. Ungo supported healthcare organizations in their efforts to deliver compassionate, culturally competent, patient-centered care to their diverse patient population. During this time he served as a board member on the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC), President of the Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators (TAHIT) and a CCHI Commissioner. In 2015, Jorge was recognized by the Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators as the Texas Star in Language Access and in 2019, he was recognized by the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care as a Language Access Champion. Born in El Salvador and raised in a bilingual, bicultural home in Texas, Jorge is passionate about uplifting marginalized communities and being a vocal ally for the underserved.
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Advisory Panels of CCHI
Policy & Industry Stakeholder Advisory Panel*
Ignatius Bau, Health Policy Consultant (CA)
Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, M.A., CHI™-Spanish, Director of Interpreter Services & Community Partnerships, University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics (WI)
Kathleen K. Diamond, M.A., Association of Language Companies (VA)
Carlos Javier González, B.A., Director of Language Initiatives, Center for Immigrant Health, NYU School of Medicine (NY)
Maria Michalczyk, M.A., RN, Oregon Health Care Interpreters Association (OR)
Idolly F. Oliva, MBA, Director, Language Services at M Health Fairview (MN)
Erin Rosales, B.A., CPLP, CHI ™ -Spanish, Director of Interpreter Development for Connecting Cultures, Inc. (WI)Certification Program Expert Advisory Panel*
M.B. Bekker, CoreCHI-P™, Assistant Manager of Medical Interpretation and Translation Services at Stanford Health Care (CA)
Lois M. Feuerle, Ph.D., JD, Oregon Society of Translators & Interpreters (OR)
Alejandro Maldonado, M.A., CHI™-Spanish, Spanish Interpreter; Limited English Proficiency Coordinator, Minnesota Department of Human Services (MN)
Virginia Pérez-Santallá, C.T., Spanish Translator and Interpreter; Officer of the Board of Directors, American Translators Association (NY)
Karin Ruschke, M.A., CoreCHI™, President, International Language Services, Inc. (IL)
Laurie Swabey, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Collaboration for the Advancement of Teaching Interpreter Excellence (CATIE) (MN)* The participation by supporters and advisors does not constitute ultimate endorsement of CCHI’s certification program.
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CCHI Delegates
Georgia – Berthine Crèvecoeur West, CoreCHI™, CEO, Westbridge Solutions, LLC (Georgia)
Tennessee – Ping C. Cross, CHI™-Mandarin, Mandarin interpreter and translator
Texas – Sandra L. Dejeux, CHI™-Spanish, SD Translations -
CCHI Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
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Job Task Analysis Study SME Panels:
2022
Sura Al Khalidi, CHI™-Arabic (CA)
Paula Coulter, CHI™-Spanish (AZ)
Kristin Grace, CoreCHI™ (ASL, IL)
Pla Htoo, CoreCHI™ (Karen, Burmese, MN)
Jane Kontrimas, CoreCHI™ (Russian, MA)
Rebecca Kranz, CHI™-Spanish (Spanish, ASL, MA)
Lynn La, CoreCHI™ (Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, CA)
Nanyi Mateo, CHI™-Spanish (DR)
Hala Mukhtar, CHI™-Arabic (BC)
Annalisa Nash Fernandez, CHI™-Spanish (Portuguese, Spanish, CT)
E. Adriana Perez, CHI™-Spanish (TX)
Isabel Pinto Franco, CoreCHI™ (Portuguese, MA)
Alicia Quim, CHI™-Spanish (TX)
Laura Rodriguez, CHI™-Spanish (TX)
Patricia Rozzo-Leadley, CHI™-Spanish (NY)
I. Lissett Samaniego (Spanish, CA)
Gilberto Sanchez, CHI™-Spanish (IL)
Hilda Sanchez-Herrera, CHI™-Spanish (SD)
Narayan Sharma, CoreCHI™ (Nepali, OH)
Kun (Jasmine) Shi, CHI™-Mandarin (MI)
Emily Sielen, CHI™-Spanish (WA)
Norio Takaki, CoreCHI™ (MA)
Catherine Wilson, CHI™-Spanish (NC)2016
Arjun Bhattarai, CoreCHI™, Nepali, Language Access Network, OH
Berthine Crèvecoeur West, CoreCHI™, Haitian Creole, West Linguistic Training Group, LLC, GA
Jacqueline (Jackie) Emmart, MS, NIC-A, ASL, High Five Health, MA
Elisa Gustafson, CHI™-Spanish, Hennepin County Medical Center, MN
Yeou-lin Ho, Mandarin, freelancer, WA
Xiaoxiao Huang, CHI™-Mandarin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Jane Kontrimas, M.A., Core CHI™, Russian, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA
Gerardo Lazaro, CHI™-Spanish, The National Institute for Coordinated Healthcare, PA
Laura Neri, CHI™-Spanish, freelancer, CA
Teresa O. Peña, CHI™-Spanish, Mercy Maricopa Integrated Care (AETNA), AZ
Karin Ruschke, M.A., CoreCHI™, German, International Language Services, IL
Mateo Rutherford, M.A., CHI™-Spanish, UCSF Medical Center, CA
Adriana Rybaski, CHI™-Spanish, Spectrum Health, MI
Frances (Sissy) Woodard, CHI™-Spanish, Johns Hopkins Hospital, MD
Amani Zaki, CHI™-Arabic, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA2010
Weli Awale, Jewish Vocational Services, Kansas City, MO
Sonia Bowe-Gutman, Health Partners/Regions, Minneapolis, MN
Ajdin Camaga, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI
Jeanne Farrow, University of Wisconsin Medical Center, Seattle, WA
María Elena Gaitán, Office of Diversity & Cultural Competency, Los Angeles County, CA
Jeanette Higgins, JMH International LLC, Columbia, MD
Maria Lara, Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, NC
Lien Huynh, International Language Services, Chicago, IL
Jasbeer Ratty, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Di Wu, Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters, Kokomo, INSubject Matter Experts (SMEs):
Abdul Sattar, Sawsan, CHI-Arabic, OH
Abu Alnasser, Mona, CHI-Arabic, CA
Adhikari, Ganga, CoreCHI, Nepali, PA
Aden, Mohamud, CoreCHI-Somali, MN
Agostini, Elena, CHI-Spanish, TX
Aguillon, Myra, CHI-Spanish, TX
Albarghouthi, Yasmeen, CHI-Arabic, OR
Al Khalidi, Sura, CHI-Arabic, CA
Al Khalidi, Sura, CHI-Arabic, CA
Al Khatib, Ahmad, CHI-Arabic, OH
Al Mudaris, Mutaz, CHI-Arabic, PA
Al-Nadi, Abedullah H., CHI-Arabic, OH
Alsamman, Marwa, CHI-Arabic, MN
Alvarado, Lynette, CHI-Spanish, NY
Amaya, Raul, CHI-Spanish, MN
Anwar, Mohamed, CHI-Arabic, TX
Arce, Nick, CHI-Spanish, CA
Aristizabal-Burton, Gloria, CHI-Spanish, CA
Arminana, Patricia, CHI-Spanish, NC
Avery, Maria Paz, Spanish, MA
Aziz, Simone Y, CHI-Arabic, MI
Badger, Katrina, Spanish, LA
Bailey, Chaibia, Arabic, OH
Baker, Maria, CHI-Spanish, AL
Balistreri, Rosanna, Italian, Spanish, CA
Balestrieri, Cara, CoreCHI, ASL, NM
Bobea, Arturo, CHI-Spanish, PA
Bambaren-Call, Ana Maria, Spanish, AZ
Becker, Yami, Spanish, TX
Benavides, Elsa, CHI-Spanish, MA
Benbassat, Amanda, CHI-Spanish, NC
Bidar-Sielaff, Shiva, CHI-Spanish, WI
Bledea, Mihai, CoreCHI, Romanian, IL
Bola-Ferriero, Maria, CoreCHI, Romanian, Moldovan, NH
Bowe-Gutman, Sonia, Spanish, MN
Boyd, Miranda, CHI-Spanish, WI
Britton, Mary, Spanish, OR
Brumar, Gabriela, Romanian, IL
Burke, Nayshunda, CoreCHI, ASL, GA
Burnett, Helga, CHI-Spanish, FL
Calcara, Velia, CHI-Spanish, MO
Camaga, Adjin, Bosnian, MI
Campos Leon, Sandra, CHI-Spanish, IN
Casal, Theresita, Spanish, AZ
Cedeño Dávila, Roselyn, CHI-Spanish, TX
Cervantes, Francis, CHI-Spanish, IL
Chang, Chi-Wei, CHI-Mandarin, MI
Chavez Moreno, Carla, MD
Chen, Anxin, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Chen, Kai, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Chen, Yizhen (Jane), CHI-Mandarin, TX
Chiu, Anna, Mandarin, NY
Comeau, Laureta, CoreCHI, Albanian, MA
Coulter, Paula, CHI-Spanish, AZ
Couture, Suzanne, CHI-Spanish, WI
Crank, Nadia, CHI-Arabic, TN
Crespo, Jorge, CHI-Spanish, OH
Cross, Ping C., CHI-Mandarin, OH
Cruz Martinez, Fabian, CHI-Spanish, AZ
Cruze, Jose, CHI-Spanish, TN
Curtis, Natasha, CHI-Spanish, OH
Daren, Bobbi, CHI-Spanish, KS
Davis, Shuling (Carol), CHI-Mandarin, CA
De la Cruz, Madeline, CHI-Spanish, IL
De La Torre, Margarita, Spanish, CA
Dejeux, Sandra, CHI-Spanish, TX
Dhungana, Bhim, CoreCHI, Nepali, OH
Diaz, Jamie, CHI-Spanish, IL
Diaz-Castillo, Sandra, Spanish, CO
DiSepio, Sofi, CHI-Spanish, PA
Donley, Maria, CHI-Spanish, IL
Droubi, Eva, Arabic, TX
Edwards, Patricia, CHI-Spanish, DC
Elias Vargas, Amanda, CHI-Spanish, SC
Elsanabary, Haydy, CHI-Arabic, NY
Elshafei, Fawzi A., CHI-Arabic, CA
Eltalhi, Targ, CHI-Arabic, MN
Essary, Elizabeth, CHI-Spanish, TX
Estrada, Sandra, CHI-Spanish, RI
Faucette, Karen, CHI-Spanish, WI
Feuerle, Lois, OR
Foster, Grant, CHI-Spanish, IL
Frohn, Elizabeth, CoreCHI, Hmong, MN
Fu, Zheng, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Fuentes, Margaret, CHI-Spanish, CO
Gabbitas, Jeffrey, AZ
Gaitan, Maria Elena, Spanish, CA
Garcia, Guadalupe, CHI-Spanish, IL
Gearing, Xiaosheng, CHI-Mandarin, DE
Giller, William, CHI-Spanish, CA
Goldschmidt-Broadus, Susy, CHI-Spanish, MN
Gonzalez, Javier, Spanish, NY
Grace, Kristin, CoreCHI, ASL, IL
Green, Carola, Spanish, VA
Guevara, Fabiola, CHI-Spanish, NV
Guia, Alessandro, Spanish, IL
Gustafson, Elisa, CHI-Spanish, MN
Hable, Dana M, CHI-Arabic, TN
Hasbun, Armando, Spanish, PA
Hasian, Amani, CHI-Arabic, KS
Hernandez, Erika, CHI-Spanish, NC
Hester, Will, CHI-Spanish, TN
Higgins, Jeanette, Spanish, MD
Hinds, Jacqueline, CHI-Spanish, OR
Horback, Larisa, CoreCHI, Ukrainian, Russian, GA
Huang, Hsuehmei (Valerie), CHI-Mandarin, OH
Huang, Mei, CHI-Mandarin, VA
Huang, Xiaoxiao, CHI-Mandarin, NY
Huang, Yinghong, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Hubbard, Jason, CHI-Spanish, AZ
Huynh, Lien, CoreCHI, Vietnamese, IL
Hwang, Yeonha Teresa, Korean, CA
Iniguez, Daniela, CHI-Spanish, MI
Isbister, Dong, CHI-Mandarin, WI
Jacobus, Susana, CHI-Spanish, FL
Jiang, Shaobo, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Johnson, Tonya, Spanish, CO
Jubran, Samira, CHI-Arabic, TN
Karapetian, Tamara, CoreCHI, Russian, Armenian, NY
Killey, Young Nyo, CoreCHI, Korean, WA
Kodirov, Rob, Russian, OR
Kranz, Rebecca, CHI-Spanish, MA
Kristie, Dan, PA
Kuhlemann, Alma, CHI-Spanish, KY
Kulig, Virginia, CHI-Spanish, CT
Kydiuk, Yana, CoreCHI, Ukrainian, WA
Lam, Hien, CoreCHI, Vietnamese, CA
Landi, Sonia, CoreCHI, Italian, OR
Lee, Carolina, CoreCHI, Vietnamese, MA
Lee-Ferrand, Evan, CHI-Spanish, VA
Leshchuk Moss, Dariia, CoreCHI, Ukrainian, AZ
Liang, Xueshizi (Stehanie), CHI-Mandarin, MA
Liles, Pauline, Spanish, NC
Liu, Hsiao-tung, CHI-Mandarin, MI
Liu, Ka Ling (Carnation), CoreCHI, Cantonese, CA
Loo, Margaret, CHI-Mandarin, CMI-Cantonese, CA
Lopez, Erin, CHI-Spanish, MN
Lopez, Marisol, CHI-Spanish, WI
Lui, Sharon Xiao Rong, CHI-Mandarin, NY
Madel, Monica, CHI-Spanish, VA
Maldonado, Alejandro, CHI-Spanish, MN
Maloney, Sandy, CHI-Spanish, TX
Manske, Jing, CHI-Mandarin, OR
Mansour, Lyana, CHI-Arabic, OH
Mayorga-Beck, Martha, CHI-Spanish, FL
Meger, Henry, CHI-Spanish, NY
Mejia, Miriam-Raquel, CHI-Spanish, IN
Mendez Gonzalez, Rosanna, CHI-Spanish, CA
Mendoza, Marco, CHI-Spanish, AZ
Merisme, Myrlande, Haitian Creole, NY
Miller, Jane Chang, CHI-Mandarin, GA
Miller, Sulien, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Montanez, Isabel, CHI-Spanish, WI
Montero, Sara, Spanish, SC
Morfin, Karla, CHI-Spanish, CA
Mukhtar, Hala, CHI-Arabic, BC Canada
Mulgrew, Eliane, CoreCHI, Portuguese, CA
Muange, Robert Ndaye, CoreCHI, French, IL
Munafo, Fabiola, CHI-Spanish, OH
Navarro, Rosamaria, CHI-Spanish, CA
Neri, Laura, CHI-Spanish, CA
Ng, Ray, CHI-Mandarin, NY
Niu, Yunshan, CHI-Mandarin, NY
Nolin, Maura, CoreCHI, ASL, ME
Omar, Atef, CHI-Arabic, TN
Onofre, Laura, CHI-Spanish, CA
Orlandi, Pilar, CHI-Spanish, NY
Parker, Johanna, CHI-Spanish, CA
Pastor Gradolí, Carmen, CHI-Spanish, CO
Pena Ramos, Lorena, CHI-Spanish, TX
Peralta, Lauren, CHI-Spanish, TX
Perez, Elba Adriana, CHI-Spanish, TX
Pérez-Santallá, Virginia, Spanish, NY
Pinto Franco, Isabel, CoreCHI, Portuguese, MA
Pollack-Johnson, Linda, CoreCHI, Italian, PA
Prias, Myriam, CHI-Spanish, CO
Radhi, Rabah, Arabic, CA
Ramicone, Ruby, CHI-Spanish, CA
Ramsey, Lilian, Spanish, IN
Rankin, Ronda, CoreCHI, ASL, NE
Rasheed, Laith A., Arabic, MO
Ratay, Karen, CHI-Spanish, WI
Ratty, Jasbeer K. , Punjabi, Hindi, Malaysian, WA
Rivera, Maria, CHI-Spanish, CO
Rivera-Ayers, Maria, CHI-Spanish, MI
Roat, Cindy, Spanish, WA
Roberts, Sarah, CHI-Spanish, CA
Rodriguez, Laura, CHI-Spanish, TX
Rodriquez, Rosemary, CHI-Spanish, VA
Rosario Castro, Cristina, CHI-Spanish, PR
Rošić, Edin, CoreCHI, Croatian, CA
Rowan, Joyce, CHI-Spanish, PA
Ruschke, Karin, CoreCHI, German, IL
Rutherford, Mateo, CHI-Spanish, CA
Saebi, Yasha (Aryana), CoreCHI, Farsi, VA
Salazar, Melissa, CHI-Spanish, NM
Samaniego, I. Lissett, Spanish, CA
Sanchez-Herrera, Hilda, CHI-Spanish, SD
Schneider, Aida, CHI-Arabic, OH
Schutzman, E. Zoe, CHI-Spanish, NM
Segawa, Megumi, CoreCHI, Japanese, MI
Sha, Glen, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Shepard-Kegl, Judy, CoreCHI, RID, ASL, ME
Shi, Kun (Jasmine), CHI-Mandarin, MI
Shihab, Malak, CHI-Arabic, OH
Sias, Rocio, CHI-Spanish, MI
Sielen, Emily, CHI-Spanish, WA
Siddiqi, Zakia, CoreCHI, Pashto, Dari, WA
Siques, Ximena, CHI-Spanish, OH
Sorensen, Tatyana, CoreCHI, Russian, UT
Spacek, Paul, CHI-Spanish, KS
Steiert, Afaf, Arabic, NY
Stockler-Rex, Sarah, CHI-Spanish, OH
Stringer, Caren, RID certification, ASL, CA
Succar, Salma, CHI-Arabic, MA
Sullivan, Benjamin, CHI-Spanish, UT
Sultanic, Indira, CHI-Spanish, CA
Sun, Qing Xiu (Linda), CHI-Mandarin, OR
Sung, Woosik, CoreCHI, Korean, SC
Suniga, Sharifa, Spanish, WY
Supikhodjaeva, Feruza, CoreCHI, Russian, Uzbek, IL
Tahary, Thea, CoreCHI, Georgian, NY
Takaki, Norio, CoreCHI, MA
Tan, Jianhua (Jessica), CHI-Mandarin, SC
Tang, Manyee, CHI-Mandarin, MA
Tapia, Sandra, CHI-Spanish, TX
Thomasini, Monica, CoreCHI, Portuguese, CA
Tong Delore, Jane (Yuk Shan), Mandarin, CA
Toozlo, Shaymaa, CHI-Arabic, IL
Torres, Fabio, CoreCHI, Portuguese, TX
Torres-Kortright, Omar, CHI-Spanish, WI
Tsang, Icarus, Cantonese, CA
Utschig, Kimberly, CHI-Spanish, WI
Vallejo, Gloria, CHI-Spanish, CO
Vazquez, Eder, CHI-Spanish, CA
Velasquez, Paola, Spanish, IL
Vivenzio De Mino, Aniella, CHI-Spanish, NC
Warshay, Alisa, CHI-Spanish, OH
Wang, Chunwen, Mandarin, MA
Weisburger, Elizabeth, CHI-Spanish, MD
Wietzel, Grant, CHI-Spanish, AZ
Wilson, Gabriela, Spanish, MI
Yang, Chia-Rhu, CHI-Mandarin, CA
Zachor, Joan B., CHI-Spanish, MA
Zamarron, Rio, MO
Zhu, Andrea, CHI-Mandarin, MA
Zhu, Zhongwen (Larry), CHI-Mandarin, ON Canada -
Commissioners Emeriti
Catherine Anderson, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2012
M.B. Bekker, CoreCHI-P™, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2021, Chair 2016-20
Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, M.A., CHI™-Spanish, CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015
Wayne M. Boatwright, M.H.A., CCHI Commissioner 2012-2015
Frederick Bw’Ombongi, M.H.A., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015
Alex Carney, CCHI Commissioner 2022-2023
Scott Crystal, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2017
Kathleen K. Diamond, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015
Jaime Fatás-Cabeza, USCCI, CCHI Commissioner 2019-2022
Gabriela Flores, M.S.M., CCHI Commissioner 2012-2018
Linda Golley, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2015-2019
Dylanna Grasinger, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2017-2023
Frederick D. Hobby, MA, CDM, CCHI Commissioner 2009-2012
Catherine Ingold, Ph.D., CCHI Commissioner 2012-2013
Mina Kini, MSW, MS, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2021, Treasurer 2020-21
Jonathan Levy, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015
Eliana Lobo, MA, CoreCHI-P™, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2021
Alejandro Maldonado, M.A., CHI™-Spanish, CCHI Commissioner 2009-2016, Chair 2013-16
Maria Michalczyk, M.A., R.N., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015
Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHI™, CCHI Commissioner 2009-2013, Chair 2012-13
Elizabeth Nguyen, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2014
Idolly F. Oliva, MBA, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2021, Chair 2020-21
Virginia Perez-Santalla, C.T., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015
Edna Y. Quartey, M.P.A., CCHI Commissioner 2014-2020, Secretary 2015-19
Erin Rosales, B.A., CHI™-Spanish, CPLP®, CCHI Commissioner 2016-2022, Secretary 2021-22
Karin Ruschke, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015, Vice Chair of Certification 2009-13
Teresa C. Salazar, M.A., CCHI Commissioner 2015-2016
E. Zoe Schutzman, M.A., CHI-Spanish, CCHI Commissioner 2020-2023, Secretary 2022-23
Jorge U. Ungo, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2021
Lee D. Williams, CCHI Commissioner 2015-2017
Mara Youdelman, J.D., LL.M., CCHI Commissioner 2009-2015, Chair 2009-12