Offerings Overview
We at Unbound have developed five offerings to grow our communities’ collective language justice capacity at the personal, organizational, and systems levels. Which one’s right for you?
Language Justice Workshop Series
Open now for organizations. (If you’re an individual, join the wait list here for future public workshops.)
Everyone in your organization has an important role to play in promoting language justice!
A two-workshop series for organizations who want to deepen their understanding and practice of language justice. Organizations wanting to bring these workshops to their colleagues can invite us in.
- Language Justice 101 (required to take the second workshop): In this first workshop, participants will examine the history, meaning, and applications of language justice from multiple perspectives and understandings at the individual, interpersonal, community, and institutional levels. Participants will also identify and evaluate specific change strategies to address language injustice in their work and decenter English-dominant ways of participation.
- Working with Language Workers: Participants will learn about the definitions and applications of interpretation, translation, and other accessibility-centered language work in community-based settings. Participants will then discuss and devise best practices to collaborate with language workers and support communication among linguistically diverse community stakeholders.
Interpreting Club
Youth-led, adult-supported after-school program.
Unbound’s Interpreting Club ran at the John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science in Boston, Massachusetts from 2019 to 2024.
Now, we’re taking the time to strategize how to scale this program and expand access to more young people.
You can support the Interpreting Club by bringing Unbound’s Language Justice Workshop Series (above) to your organization: funds will bolster our ability to work with more young people.
Students learn together through games, practice exercises, and interactive and reflective activities. Students draw from their own valuable experiences to gain knowledge and skills about various interpreting fields and explore a variety of topics related to language and the career of interpretation and translation. The club spreads awareness of the language injustices present in our communities and what students can do about it. We cover everything from the history of interpreting and translating to “What would you do?” situations to actually putting student interpreting skills to the test through simultaneous interpretation.
Language Justice Blueprint
A 6-month cohort experience for organizations eager to embed language justice into their work and increase the participation of culturally and linguistically diverse community members.
Organizations co-learn, co-create, and collaborate to answer the question: “How does language justice impact and uplift our work?” and build a collective vision of language justice as well as an actionable Language Justice Plan to achieve it.
Cohort 1 ran in 2022.
Community Interpreting Certificate Program
50-hour interpreting certificate program that trains bilingual and multilingual folks from our communities and organizations with the skills they need to become successful spoken language interpreters in the areas of: community-based work, social services, social justice settings, non-profit organizations, K-12 educational settings, and grassroots organizations. You can join as an individual or as an organization. Maximum 25 participants total.
Cohort 1 ran in 2023.
Community Language Justice Workshop Series
A series of workshops for members of your communities most affected by language injustice. Facilitated in languages other than English (current languages available: Spanish and Portuguese).
Workshops:
- Language Justice 101
- Know Your Language Rights
- Working with Interpreters and Translators
- Organizing and Advocating for Language Justice