Ernest Niño-Murcia: From court to live political debates

Not Quite Magic

English - May 27, 2020 01:53 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MB
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Interview conducted by Elena Langdon - [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/elenalangdon

Interviewee: Ernest Niño Murcia - ENM_Interpreter (Twitter) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/enminterpreter/

Ernest Niño-Murcia is a freelance legal interpreter and translator based in Des Moines, Iowa. He received a B.A. in Anthro-Linguistics from Brown University. As a state and federally certified court interpreter, he has interpreted legal proceedings and prepared translations, transcriptions and expert witness reports/testimony for clients in the private and public sectors. He is a member of the Iowa Judicial Branch´s Language Access in the Courts Committee.

Outside of court, he has interpreted for public figures such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. He is currently working with Iowa PBS providing live interpretation for broadcasts of Governor Kim Reynolds’ daily press briefings on the COVID-19 crisis.

Additionally, Ernest is a Jeopardy! Champion (2012), whose greatest achievement on the show was beating an attorney to the buzzer to answer "co-defendant" in the "11 letter words" category.

Music by Clover Fortier

Podcast graphic art by Marcelle Carlson