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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,
I also on Vimeo have a series of videos up
on the Bikes not Bombs YouTube Channel.
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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