Yolanda Chavira
Co-sponsored by the National Multicultural Interpreter Project & the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
BEI III, Trilingual
Yolanda Chavira is currently a Staff Interpreter for DARS/Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services. She has been interpreting professionally since 1990. Yolanda is the lead coordinator for the Hispanic Texas Trilingual Initiative test development being performed in partnership between DHHS and the University of Arizona; she is a member of the Panel of Experts for that project. She has been the force behind the DHHS Hispanic Task Force since 1997. She coordinated the DHHS sponsorship and the planning of training for 34 Hispanic trilingual interpreters held at the Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf, Big Spring, in July, 2007. She holds a Berlitz Test of Proficiency, Master’s Level. Yolanda also received an Advanced Plus Level certificate from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - Extension School, San Antonio, TX. She attended the University of Arizona Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation training 2 years in a row and the Training of Trainers from the National Center for Interpretation Testing Research and Policy, Tucson, Arizona. She is the proud mother of 5 children one of whom is deaf.
