Short Bio
Although I was born in the heart of Dallas, Texas, I didn’t hear much English at home while growing up. My father’s native language was Italian, and my mother’s was Arabic. We moved to Venezuela before I turned two and, as a result, my first language was Spanish. I learned English while enrolled in a Spanish/English grade school and high school in Caracas. This foundation eventually allowed me to attend graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri to receive a master’s in Healthcare Administration.
In 2007, while exploring part-time work to allow time to raise a family, I started tutoring and teaching high school Spanish in Los Angeles, California. As my babies grew, I was looking to get back into the medical field and decided to study to become a certified medical interpreter. After years of interpreting in medical offices and hospitals, I went back to school again to obtain certification as a court interpreter as well. Soon, I was getting requested for more interpreting jobs than I could possibly cover. So, I began helping my clients fill those jobs by putting them in contact with the many interpreters that I had built professional relationships with throughout my career. Soon, the phrase “Just call Alex” became a popular solution to connecting nurse case managers and attorneys with certified interpreters.