NCIHC Language Access Champions

2025 18th Annual Membership Meeting, Virtual Event

Michael J. Mulé, Department of Justice Employee

Cross-Cultural Communications, Columbia, Maryland

2024 17th Annual Membership Meeting, Virtual Event 

Ludmila Golovine, President & CEO of MasterWord, Houston, TX

2023 1st Annual Language Access Congress, Virtual Event

Natalya Mytareva, Executive Director, CCHI, Akron, OH

2022 15th Annual Membership Meeting, Virtual Event

Melinda Paras, Owner of Paras and Associates, Berkeley, CA

Found in Translation, Dorchester, MA

2021 14th Annual Membership Meeting, Virtual Event

Ira Sen Gupta, Executive Director at Cross Cultural Health Care Program, Seattle, WA

2020 No Award given

2019  Philadelphia, PA 13th Annual Membership Meeting

Jorge Ungo, Language Access Advocate, Houston, TX

AllCare Health, Grants Pass, OR

2018  Denver, CO 12th Annual Membership Meeting

Julie Burns, Santa Rosa, CA

2017 Portland, ME 11th Annual Membership Meeting

Shari Gold-Gomez, Director of Interpreter Services, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston, MA

2016 Austin, TX 10th Annual Membership Meeting

Erika Shell Castro, Director of Interpreting Services, Language Access Network (LAN)

2015 Minneapolis, MN 9th Annual Membership Meeting

Bruce T. Downing, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics / Former Director of the Program in Translation and Interpreting, University of Minnesota

Maria-Paz Beltran Avery, PhD, Managing Project Director, Education Development Center, Newton, MA

Tracy Young, Language Access Services Coordinator, Barton Health, Lake Tahoe, NV  

2014 Charleston, SC 8th Annual Membership Meeting

Teresita “Terry” Cataag Bautista, Consultant and Educator; former Director of Interpreter
Services at Alameda County Medical Center

Allison Bayer, Former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Cambridge
Health Alliance

John Nickrosz, Retired, Former President of the Massachusetts Medical Interpreters
Association (MMIA)

2013 Seattle, WA 7th Annual Membership Meeting

Maria Michalczyk, Branch Manager, Coram Healthcare

Milly Valverde, Associate Director, Language Services, Ohio State University

Victor Sosa, Access Coordinator, Natividad Medical Center

Patricia Greene, Director of Patient and Family Services, Southern NH Medical Center

2012 Madison, WI 6th Annual Membership Meeting

Guadalupe Pacheco Jr., Senior Health Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Javier F. Sevilla-Mártir, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Director of Hispanic/Latino Health, Global Health and International Medicine, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Indiana University School of Medicine 

MassAHEC Network UMass Medical School

2011 New Orleans, LA 5th Annual Membership Meeting

Mary Rynerson, Founder, Pacific Interpreters

Mara Youdelman, Managing Attorney, National Health Law Program; Chair, Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI)

EthnoMed University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries and Harborview Medical Center's Interpreter Services Department/Community House Calls Program

2010 Washington DC 4th Annual Membership Meeting

Ignatius Bau, Independent Health Policy Consultant

Estela McDonough, Coordinator of Interpreter Services, UMass Memorial Medical Center

Kaiser Permanente - Northern California