LCL2021 Career Panel: Language Access to Government
Channel: Linguistics Career Launch
Date: 01/02/2022

Dana Chisnell has joined the US Digital Service as a Policy Design Researcher and General Problem Solver. Her current challenge is designing for language access. By law, everything in the immigration system must be in English. US Gov’t makes information available in multiple languages, depending on the program, mostly in print. What if you’re illiterate in your native language? This is a logistics problem, but also a power/equity issue. How do we design for it?

Presenter: Dana Chisnell (USDS, United States Digital Service)

Moderator: Nancy Frishberg

Resources: None.

This event was recorded on July 21, 2021, as part of the Linguistics Career Launch https://www.linguisticscareerlaunch.com/

Video editing by Gregory Gray 

Closed captioning by Ginny Stouse

Music by Setuniman Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License https://freesound.org/people/Setuniman/sounds/274787/

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