I have over thirty-five years of experience as a translator, anthropologist, and educator. I am the owner of Tocantins Communications, a translation business I opened in 1988. My extensive expertise in translating projects to and from Portuguese/English languages attests to my excellent final products and customer satisfaction.

Below is a list of my published translations and work.

I am looking forward to doing business with you.

1988-present       Translator,
Tocantins Communications Portuguese Translation Services, Chula Vista-CA

Serving the Brazilian community
and those doing business with Brazil and Brazilians Over twenty years of
experience translating everything from personal letters to technical manuals,
business reports, travel brochures, and academic articles.

Partial Client List: ARCO, J. P.
Getty Conservation Institute, Neutrogena Inc., International Medical Corps,
TNT, UCLA, Latin American Perspectives Academic Journal

2004                 Producer
of Brazilian Documentary Festival, Los Angeles, California

2004                 Translator - Graduate
Researcher for the project: “Homelessness in Four Global Cities: Paris, Tokyo, Los
Angeles, São Paulo,” University of California, Irvine – translated 25
interviews with homeless individuals from Portuguese into English

2004                 Public Service Announcement,
volunteer voice-over recording for UNIFEM Anti Domestic Violence Campaign in
Brazil

1991-93             Reporter/Writer, Brazil Today, Los
Angeles, California Reported on Brazilian arts and culture, interviewing
Brazilian celebrities, musicians, and artists such as Hermeto Pascoal, Olodum,
and Airto Moreira

1989-94             Reporter/Writer, Brazzil Magazine,
Los Angeles, California Reporter, and Writer Brazzil Magazine, Los Angeles,
California, 1989 to 1994 Interviewed and wrote about local Brazilian musicians
and artists, and held a monthly column on tourism in Brazil

Published
Translations

2008                 da Fonseca, Lívia Gimenes Dias
and Luciana de Souza Ramos – “The Incarcerated Female: Women’s Prison System in
Brazil,” Human Rights in Brazil: A report by the Social Network for Justice and
Human Rights.  Ed. Sydow, E. and Maria
Luisa Mendonça

2008                 Galli, Beatriz and Carmen Hein
Campos – “Lawsuit Against Women who Practice Abortion in Mato Grosso do Sul: A
Question of Human and Reproductive Rights,” Human Rights in Brazil: A report by
the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights.  Ed. Sydow, E. and Maria Luisa Mendonça

2007                 Santos, Cecília MacDowell –
“Human Rights for Women and Violence Against Women: Advances and Limits of the
Maria da Penha Law,” Human Rights in Brazil: A report by the Social Network for
Justice and Human Rights.  Ed. Sydow, E.
and Maria Luisa Mendonça

2006                 Fon Filho, Anton – “Prophecies
do not Change the Future,” Human Rights in Brazil: A Social Network for Justice and Human Rights report. 
Ed. Sydow, E. and Maria Luisa Mendonça

2005                 de Carvalho Filho, José Juliano
– “Agrarian Policies and Rural Violence,” Human Rights n Brazil: A Social Network for Justice and Human Rights report.  Ed. Sydow, E. and Maria Luisa Mendonça