From Chicago to Cairo: Building unity on a remote international team

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Dr. Jill Kushner Bishop is Founder & CEO of Multilingual Connections, a global language solutions company that supports translation, transcription, transcreation, and multimedia needs in over 75 languages for organizations across the globe. Jill brought her PhD in linguistic anthropology to the corporate world, where she worked as a user researcher and then oversaw the implementation of language and culture programs for 130 Chipotle Mexican Grill locations. In 2005, she launched Multilingual Connections to help organizations understand, engage, and grow their multilingual audiences.

Katherine Baumann is Production Director at Multilingual Connections. Her career in the language industry began in 2009 in Santiago, Chile, where she taught English, managed a language institute, and translated. Her translation focus was academic articles for journal publication and international development content. She came back to Chicago and to Multilingual in 2014, and has over a decade of experience in the industry as a translator, editor, project manager, team lead and now, Production Director.