Our Mission

Barbara J. Rodriguez founded TransFluenci LLC, a successful community business providing language interpreting and translation services to private, public and government sectors. The company is an approved state vendor with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut providing translation/interpreting services to state agencies. Ms. Rodriguez holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from American International College and a Masters in Business Administration from Western New England College.  In 2007, Ms. Rodriguez created the 60-Hr Medical Interpreting course and offers it in collaboration with Massachusetts and Connecticut community colleges.

Tina Teixeira was born and raised in the Cape Verde Islands where her passion for languages began. She studied Portuguese, French and English. She has been a medical interpreter for 15 years for the Steward Health System and is currently Supervisor for the Interpreter Services Department at SSTAR, a global leader in addiction treatment and mental health services. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese ( European and Brazilian ) Cape Verdean Creole and Conversational French.

Ana Luisa Schwartz, born in Lima, Peru, is a certified Spanish medical and court interpreter who has resided and worked in Massachusetts for over 30 years. She has worked in the Massachusetts healthcare system as a medical interpreter for five years. She received her formal education in Psychology at Framingham State College.

After raising her family, she returned to medical and legal interpreting and translation. During this time she spent three years working at the Immigration Court in Boston, MA. Upon becoming certified with the National Center for State Courts she worked at the Rhode Island District Court for one year and currently at the Massachusetts Trial Court for almost four years. Ms. Schwartz has transcribed and translated wire taps and recorded police interviews from Spanish to English for defense attorneys and district attorneys for over 8 years.  All in all, Ms. Schwartz, has translated documents for medical, pharmaceutical, legal, education, marketing for over 25 years. Ms. Schwartz in now in her fourth year teaching the Medical Interpreting course at the community college level.

Ms. Vazquez is a native Spanish speaker from Mexico. She has been working as a language teacher for 30 years. She attained English teacher licensure at UNAM in 1990. Ms. Vazquez has made several presentations as a motivational and educational speaker since 1995 on the topics of interpreting skills, teaching methods, continuing education for interpreters, and navigating cultural differences. Organizations that have hosted her include, IMIA, NETA, MassHealth and MassAHEC, the Boston Association for the Education of Young Children (BAEYC), and UMASS Medical School. Ms. Vazquez founded ESPEN Services in 2007, a medical interpretation and training services agency, and, she has also volunteered with Centro Presente Association preparing residents for citizenship as an ESL teacher in her community and as a CCD instructor for her local church.

Catherine Bermudez Sanabria, Certified Medical Healthcare Interpreter, holds a Masters in Education/ESL from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico and specializes in VRI (Video Remote Interpreting and OPI (Over the Phone Interpreting). She formerly worked at Baystate Medical Center as a staff interpreter. She is an experienced medical interpreting instructor and, has also interpreted for Due Process Hearings, Unemployment Hearings, IEP School Department Hearings, and Department of Social Services Hearings.

Nilma De Magalhaes, Certified Medical Interpreter, was born and raised in Brazil, where she graduated as Elementary School Teacher. She has multi unit managerial experience, including vendor relations, guest service execution, market analysis, payroll management, reporting, recruiting, development and training of personnel. She successfully completed a course with Harvard University in Leadership Skills, has been certified in CPR, Servsafe and, Allergen Awareness. She has been a Certified Medical Interpreter since 2019 and, received her Hub-CMI certification in 2020. She is working as a freelancer with multiple agencies and, also has been providing services as Portuguese Language Coach with TransFluenciEDU since 2020. She is now in her second year working as a Medical Interpreting course instructor. She is a member of NETA-New England Translators Association since 2020. She has true passion in assisting, coaching, training and, developing others.