Priscilla Mendenhall

Priscilla Mendenhall "is currently Director of Education & Training for the Northern Virginia Area Health Education Center. In this capacity, she is responsible for the agency’s interpreter training, cultural competence programs and curriculum development activities. Over the past six years, Ms. Mendenhall has supervised more than thirty-five interpreter training courses which have brought more than seven hundred and fifty bilingual individuals into the field of professional interpretation. She is co-author/editor of the 20-hour Introduction to Community Interpreting curriculum as well as the 40-hour Interpreting in Health and Community Settings course. Ms. Mendenhall is an experienced trainer. She co-teaches interpreters and has conducted workshops in Communicating Through An Interpreter for more than 1,500 health and human service providers. Priscilla Mendenhall is an active member of the Policy and Research Committee of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care. In this role, she represents the Council at the National Language Access in Health Care Coalition. She is Chair of the Northern Virginia Coalition for Refugees and Immigrants and a founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Interpreters Association. Ms. Mendenhall is a resident of Washington, D.C. and has lived in Switzerland, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, France, Italy, Quebec and Madagascar."


 * Secretary, Guatemala Human Rights Commission