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CHASKEL, A07
Hometown: Bogotá, Colombia
Major: Anthropology
Co-founder, The Community Language Bank
in Somerville
“ Working with the Somerville community,
I saw this huge need for affordable trans-
lation and interpretation services; people
just won’t come to community meetings
if they can’t read the flyers, or they can’t
understand the discussion. Now, we find
Tufts students with multiple languages,
train them, and sell their online transla-
tion and on-site interpretation services to
groups and businesses in the community.
And we make just enough to pay for the
next training!”
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