Cynthia Hernandez

Cynthia Hernandez is a certified court interpreter (NCSC Consortium) with the Georgia Commission on Interpreting. She is experienced and trained in translation as well, having completed graduate level courses in translation, and is ATA (American Translators Association) certified for Spanish-English. She holds two MAs - one in Bilingual Legal Interpreting (College of Charleston '03) and one in Latin American Studies (Tulane University). She also holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology from Tulane, with minors in Psychology and Anthropology.

She has medical, social service and legal interpreting/translating experience. In the legal field she has abundant experience with workman's compensation depositions and hearings, public defender cases, court interpreting and translation of court documents. She teaches Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting in the College of Charleston MA program and is the Trainer for the Interpreter Qualification Project at the University of South Carolina, which screens and trains interpreters for work in DSS (Dept. of Social Services) and DHEC (Dept. of Health and Environmental Control). She also oversees legal translations for these two agencies.