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

I 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

so 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 you editted 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

on the Bikes Not Bombs YouTube Channel

and I also on the Vimeo

have a series of videos up

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 them 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 together we

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 in other language

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