Our Team

April Bi

April is in her second year of the Translation and Localization Management program at MIIS with an English and Chinese language pair. She is also currently a linguist at Translators for Elders. She has a particular interest in the audiovisual and multimedia fields and hopes to one day work in those areas! April wanted to join the leadership team of Mentorship Program because she met her incredible mentor who warmly welcomed her in to the localization industry, she highly recommended the program for every students and wanted to support MIIS students as much as possible.

Sue S.

Sue is currently pursuing a master’s in Translation and Localization Management with a focus in Japanese.She is interested in applying different CAT tools combined with programming languages and translation tasks. Her passion lies in the aspiration to invigorate and spark inspiration in the localization and management industry. In her free time, she enjoys reading and practicing yoga or pilates.

Previous Team Members

The project was founded by Veronica Fried, Cynthia Chen and Caitlin Quait in 2019 during their first year at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. They wanted to help MIIS TLM students connect with localization professionals. The program later grew to helping translation and interpretation students as well.

2023-2024: Hannah Berke ’23, Melissa Svenningsen ’23, June Jiang ’23

2022-2023: Sam Jamieson ’22, Aurora Wang ’22, Oussama Bel Aïba ’22 and Stephanie Lu ’23

2021-2022: Naomi Stock ’22, Luke Paustian ’22, Grizelda Ambriz ’22 and Wendy Wei ’22

2019-2021 (Founding Team): Veronica Fried ’21, Cynthia Chen ’21 and Caitlin Quait ’21