CAPIT - California Association of Professional Interpreters and Translators

08/25/2026

🌉 CAPIT continues to protect our professional interests in California!

📜 Read about our association's position on the policy changes proposed by the Judicial Council:

The Judicial Council’s Court Executives Advisory Committee is considering changes that would restructure compensation for contract interpreters.

08/20/2026

🔔 Monday, August 24th is the last day!

👂 Do you want your voice to be heard? Do you want to protect our profession?

🗣️ Make your comments to the Judicial Council and help safeguard the interpreting community from the rigid new rules being proposed!

🤓 Get informed here:

Just as of last week, we learned that the Judicial Council’s Court Executives Advisory Committee (CEAC) is proposing changes to its Superior Court Payment Policies for Independent Contract Interpreters (SP26-05). The deadline for comments is next Monday August 24, 2026. This is not just a Superior...

08/18/2026

🛰️ Do you have this next webinar on your RADAR?

🤖 Join us on Zoom September 24th at 10:00 a.m. for Carola's presentation entitled "MTPE, AIHT, AUTO-QE - WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR HUMAN TRANSLATORS?"

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
- 🔤 what the alphabet soup in the title means.
- 🛜 the status quo of machine and AI translation, automated post-editing, and the limits of these approaches.
- 🦾 distinguishing fact from fiction, reality from hype, what AI can and cannot do, and where it fails and will continue to fail.

🤑 This webinar is FREE for CAPIT members!

You can RSVP for this event and many more offered by CAPIT here:

CAPIT Members receive 25% off of all paid events as well as have access to members-only events. Please login to see discounts and sign up for member-only events. (If you want to see what CAPIT has been up to recently, you can View Past Events.)

08/13/2026

🗣️ Have you heard about a California bill called AB 1242?

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 CAPIT members have the opportunity to be heard on this bill containing weak language about the meaning of interpreter/interpretation and translator/translation.

⏰ CAPIT's recommendations submitted last year have not been incorporated.

🌟 Tomorrow, August 13th, the bill is up for a hearing again. This is the perfect time to send in a comment to your local lawmaker!

✍ Please write in if you are in any of these lawmakers' districts:
- Assembly Member Nguyen
- Assembly Member Lee
- Assembly Member Bonta
- Assembly Member Krell
- Assembly Member Celeste Rodriguez

👀 Read the bill here: https://lnkd.in/gzFgpNnR

🔍 Find your representative here: https://lnkd.in/gFMwzcbA

📫 Interested in staying abreast about this and other topics we language professionals face in our state? Join CAPIT today!
https://capitnet.org/

CAPIT is an ATA chapter dedicated to providing a space for language professionals from across California to come together, learn from each other, and continue to grow the profession.

08/04/2026

🛰️ Do you have this next webinar on your RADAR?

🤖 Join us on Zoom September 24th at 10:00 a.m. for Carola's presentation entitled "MTPE, AIHT, AUTO-QE - WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR HUMAN TRANSLATORS?"

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
- 🔤 what the alphabet soup in the title means.
- the status quo of machine and AI translation, automated post-editing, and the limits of these approaches.
- distinguishing fact from fiction, reality from hype, what AI can and cannot do, and where it fails and will continue to fail.

🤑 This webinar is FREE for CAPIT members!

Want to future-proof your career in the current market? RSVP here:

You’ll learn more about the status quo of machine and AI translation, automated post-editing, and the limits of these approaches in order to develop your own strategies for a more future-proof position in the language market.

07/27/2026

🤔 Concerned about the state of things for professional interpreters in the worker’s compensation space but not sure where to begin?

WCIG has developed clear instructions about how you can participate in voicing your concerns about the DWC fee schedule!

Find out more and sign up at:

07/14/2026

💪🏼 Staying up to date on current events in our profession and want to do something about it?

💻 Join us on June 30th at 5:30 pm as we explore ways to fight the fee schedule issue affecting our state.

✅ We are delighted to welcome Hans Johnson, Katherine Allen, and Bill Rivers as our speakers. You can even email your questions ahead of time!

Register here:

Professional interpreters face an existential threat in California. Find out how you can push back. Learn what professional interpreters up and down the state are doing to shape humane rules and improve the fee schedule.

07/13/2026

🤔 Concerned about the state of things for professional interpreters in the worker’s compensation space but not sure where to begin?

🤲 Look no further! CAPIT’s very own WCIG has developed clear instructions about how you can participate in voicing your concerns about the DWC fee schedule.

🏆 Take a look at this valuable information: https://capitnet.org/wcig/take-action-help-protect-language-access-contact-your-lawmaker-about-the-dwcs-proposed-updates-to-the-interpreter-fee-schedule/

📝 Additionally, WCIG has crafted a helpful script you can use to make contacting California lawmakers that much easier.

👀 Check it out: https://capitnet.org/wcig/take-action-script-for-calling-your-california-lawmaker-about-language-access-workers-comp/

Getting in the door is one thing. Getting follow-through may require making a call. Here’s a simple script to use to call the 2 state lawmakers who work for YOU. This script makes it easy to call YOUR lawmakers and get them to act. To find the Assemblymember and Senator who work for you, enter you...

07/04/2026

⌛ Check out this new piece on a very timely issue in the workers' compensation interpreting world!

💡 This article is currently available for non-members, but will be moved to our members-only area in a month's time. If you are interested in reading other WCIG articles like this one, please join CAPIT for access to the members-only area!

👀 Check out the article here:

By Lorena Ortiz Schneider, CAPIT Vice President and WCIG Chair Background of the case When injured worker Felix Vasquez settled his workers’ compensation case, a professional interpreter from Tony Barriere Interpreting Service was brought in to read and explain the Compromise & Release (C&R) to Fe...

07/02/2026

🏝️ July is here, which means our next book club meeting is just around the corner!

📙 Join us on July 11th at 11 a.m. for a lively discussion between CAPIT and ATA-SPD members about "Los abismos" by Pilar Quintana.

Don't forget to register:

Join us for our next meeting where we’ll be having a lively conversation in Spanish about the book Los abismos by Colombian author Pilar Quintana.