Virginia Valencia is a professional psychologist (2001) and a federally certified court interpreter (2008) with over 15 years’ professional experience in the fields of legal, medical, and conference interpretation. She holds a Combined Certificate in Translation and Interpretation Studies (Hunter College, 2004) and is certified/approved by Superior Courts of NJ (2005), NY (2006), and CA (2012). In 2007, Virginia founded her educational company, Interpretrain (www.interpretrain.com), which offers game-driven workshops and user-friendly multi-media study tools for interpreters to further improve their professional skills. Drawing from her background in psychology, her classes and training materials offer dynamic games and drills to master consecutive interpretation, acquire new vocabulary, and learn the proper protocol to behave in court.She currently lives in California, where she teaches and works as an interpreter.