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As Iowa’s premiere association of professional translators and interpreters, IITA serves our state’s linguistically diverse community through education, training, and promotion of our profession.

 
It is time to renew your IITA membership for 2012!
Renew online now  --  forms to renew by mail

Iowa Court Interpreters Orientation Workshop - March 24 & 25, 2012
DMACC Urban Campus (registration deadline: 4:00 pm March 16, 2012)
Register online now  ---  Register by mail

24th Annual Conference of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts
- May 9-12, 2012 in Omaha at the Hilton Hotel

The California Healthcare Interpreters Association has opened registration to their
2012 CHIA Annual Education Conference for Friday-Saturday, March 9-10, at the DoubleTree Hotel and Meeting Center at the Berkeley Marina (San Francisco Bay)

SAVE THE DATE8th Annual IITA Conference, June 1-2, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA

SAVE THE DATE:  Advancing the Profession of Health Care Interpreting, September 14-15

Northwestern College invests in interpretation lab
 (press release)

Northwestern's Simultaneous Interpretation Lab (KMEG television news clip)

The Iowa Interpreters and Translators Association (IITA) is an Iowa non-profit organization. Incorporated in 2004, IITA has the following mission:

 ·  to promote the recognition of the translation and interpretation
      professions in Iowa
 
 ·   to promote the communication and dissemination of knowledge for the
      benefit of Iowa's translators and interpreters;
 
 ·  to formulate and maintain standards of professional ethics, practices,
      and competence;
 
 ·   to stimulate and support the training of Iowa's translators and
      interpreters;
 
 ·  to actively represent the professional interests of Iowa's translators and
      interpreters before actual and potential users of translation and
      interpretation services;
 
 ·   to promote professional and social relations among its members
 

IITA is affiliated with the American Translators Association (ATA) and is an organizational member of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT) and the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).

Current Officers/Board Members:

President:  Patricia Hillock (2010-2012)
Vice-President: Dayna Weltzin (2011-2013)
Secretary: Emilia Jorge-Hugg (2011-2013)
Treasurer: Jeana Clark (2010-2012)
Director: Wyman Borts (2010-2012)
Director: Kristin Gannett-Sánchez (2010-2012)
Director: Ernest Nino-Murcia (2011-2013)