Category Archives: Giving back

From Professional Linguist and Senior Executive to Texas Czech Preservationist: Continuing My Great-Grandfather’s 140-Year Mission

This is the first in a series of posts I’ll be writing on the Texas Czech Legacy Project Introduction: The Unexpected Journey If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be spending my time listening to transcripts of interviews with elderly Texas Czechs, I probably would have laughed and said, “Yeah I WISH.”Continue reading “From Professional Linguist and Senior Executive to Texas Czech Preservationist: Continuing My Great-Grandfather’s 140-Year Mission”

Why I Volunteer with Translators without Borders (And Why You Should Too!)

So there I was, doing my own thing browsing around the internet, when BOOM 💥 — an email lands in my inbox: “Ready to Make a Difference? Czech translators needed for WHO project.” Wait, what? I had completely forgotten I’d signed up to volunteer with Translators without Borders a couple months earlier. And now theContinue reading “Why I Volunteer with Translators without Borders (And Why You Should Too!)”