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Candidate Statements -- ATA Elections 2026
Calling all Voting members! Participating in ATA’s annual elections is your opportunity to help shape the future of the Association. Learn what this year’s candidates for ATA’s Board of Directors have to say.
ATA Advocacy at Work: An Update from the Advocacy Committee
This year, ATA’s Advocacy Committee has focused heavily on protecting human expertise against indiscriminate technology implementation and defending the rights of language professionals.
Introducing the ATA Learning Hub!
Created by ATA’s leadership and experienced professionals, the ATA Learning Hub will offer relevant, high-quality education that gives professionals the tools they need to improve their core skills in technology, ethics, and leadership.
Bonus Features
Humor and Translation: Star-Crossed Lovers
Similar stories can arise on their own in different cultures. However, when the exact same story appears in different cultures, retaining even the names of the characters, it’s obvious that the story has been passed from culture to culture via translation. One such story is that of the star-crossed lovers whose love is thwarted by their parents, and who, in an attempt to escape their parents’ restrictions, wind up dead.
Humor and Translation: Biased Artificial Intelligence
Every language is a cluster of dialects. And even when two people speak the same dialect (that is, employ the same grammar and vocabulary), they can differ in pronunciation, speech rhythm, and speech speed, and even vary their speech to a considerable extent depending on the social situation in which they find themselves. So, how does artificial intelligence (AI) cope with these variations? The short answer is that, as of now, it doesn’t.
ATA Offers Language Access Cards for LEP Individuals
Exercise the right to language access! ATA offers Language Access Cards that limited-English-proficient individuals can present in settings like hospitals and courtrooms to request assistance in their language and to prompt language services providers for assistance with language access resources.
