So much content is only available in English

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My name is Charlotte Fagan.

I am an Account Development
Associate with Amara.

And I live in Boston Massachusetts.

When did you start working for Amara,

and why you decided to work
for this organization?

I was drawn to the mission of Amara

because I, for a long time,
have actually made a lot of videos

and put them online, and edited them

and I'm very interested
in how translation happens on YouTube.

I used to work on a project
with bike mechanics

and translating it
into a bike mechanic video manual

and translating it
into different languages.

And so when I saw this job post at Amara

I thought: wow, this really combines
a lot of my interests.

Do you have your own YouTube channel?

Or have you edited
for other organization?

Video work that I've done before...

I used to work
at an organization here in Boston

called Bikes not Bombs.

Which is when we worked on this
video mechanics manual,

and thought a lot about how do you reach
different audiences around the world

because so much content is available
about bike repair on YouTube

but only in English.

So we started producing videos
that were also available in Spanish

and those videos were really popular.

Those are probably the most popular videos
that I've worked on YouTube,

on the Bikes not Bombs YouTube Channel.

I also on Vimeo have a series of videos up

and my user name is called
Woman on a Wheel,

which is my blog
about women's cycling culture

around the world.

You also take part in a lot
of different bike-related activities

and initiatives

before you came to Amara.

- Can you talk about one of them called...
- Carishina en Bici

Oh, yeah! that one

Carishina en Bici is also interesting

because since Amara works with translation

Carishina is a Quechua word

which is an indigenous community
in South America

and the literal translation
for Carishina into Spanish

is a woman
with little abilities in the kitchen.

And it's often referred to women

who in English you would call tomboys

it's slang.

So I was in Ecuador working at a bike shop

and a customer came in
and saw me working on a bicycle

and said "Que carishina"

which is really meant as an insult
but I kind of liked the word

and so some friends and I got together

and formed
this group called Carishina en Bici

and we organized a lot of different events

to get more women riding bikes in Ecuador.

Do you have any opinion about...

what do you think
the future of translation might be?

Overall, I think that translation continues

to be more and more important

as we have a more interconnected world

and as different communities
interact with each other more

they need translators between them.

In general,

the future is just
the growing importance of translation

as a really important localization solution
for businesses

and just an interpersonal, you know,

as people want
to connect with people around the world

who speak another language.

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