This past week, GLS was honored to perform Haitian<>English conference interpretation for a series of meetings held from June 11-13 between IAF personnel and U.S. Senate/Congressional representatives.
About Dr. Rebekah Dyer Founder & CEO Dr. Rebekah Dyer is the founder and CEO of GLS who completed her Doctor of Liberal Studies degree from Georgetown in the fall semester of 2019. Prior to founding GLS in 2012, Dr. Dyer was the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Torres Advanced Enterprise
For those who don’t know what NAJIT stands for, it is the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators. This year’s NAJIT conference was held at the Omni hotel and conference center in Providence, Rhode Island.
With over 8 billion people in the world, and more than 7,000 known languages, it seems unlikely that there will ever be one language that everyone speaks. Interestingly, cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia are believed to be the first examples of written language, though Egyptian hieroglyphs appeared simultaneously in the 4th millennium BCE.