Who we are

I’ve long been a simultaneous and consecutive interpreter, for love and money, with the occasional foray (for insatiable curiosity and natural defiance) farther afield: from the opening of a commercial venture abroad to university research on the interaction between culture and diet. Together with my three friends and colleagues, in 1998 I founded CLA, a studio tailor-made for the women and professionals we are: more then twenty years later, it still fits us perfectly.

My first assignment as an interpreter came just a few days after getting my diploma as a parliamentary interpreter, and since then, alongside teaching, research and various project collaborations, I’ve never stopped translating. Because translating isn’t just something that puts bread on the table for me: it means meeting people, both those in leadership positions or in the media spotlight and men and women who fly under the radar, but whose vision is keen. Over the years I’ve accrued experience in a vast range of subjects, from conventional and alternative medicine to the legal sector, mechanics, sports, marketing, art and literature. Whether it was my family background, personal interest or just plain luck, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to particularly familiarize myself with viticulture and enology, as well as gastronomy and the associated agrifood technologies, the economic aspects, statistics and finance and management of industrial production processes, the environment and sustainable and circular economies. I also often work with notaries on real estate transactions and am a regular at automotive events. But whatever the context, interpreting is not just a question of putting a series of words in the right order, but of fully comprehending specialized concepts and terms and, above all, understanding and effectively reproducing a person’s intentions.