We are so grateful to the UW student translators who worked with the Department of Communication to enable us to share our 2021 graduation keynote with non-English-speaking attendees from Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Spanish-language households.

Mandarin Chinese Translators:

Pei-Yu (Angela) Liao
● UW Senior studying Psychology and Education
● Incoming Harvard Graduate Student
● Native Mandarin Chinese Speaker

Yun-Ju (Wendy) Chen
● UW Sophomore planning to major in Chemistry
● Native Mandarin Chinese Speaker

Sam Gong
● UW Senior majoring in Communication and minoring in Entrepreneurship and History
● Native Mandarin Chinese Speaker
● 7 years of part-time working experience in bi-lingual communication and broadcasting media. Completed multiple simultaneous interpretation projects for radio programs.
● Equity and Accessibility Team Lead for COM Graduation 2021

Spanish Translator: Yohaly Camacho

● UW student and native Spanish and English speaker
● Has experience with translating through her job, especially medical documentation

Korean Translator: Youn Kim || Native Korean Speaker, Filmmaker, and Artist

Vietnamese Translator: Long Tran

● UW Graduate student majoring in Cinema and Media Studies
● UW Vietnamese Class Grader