  {"id":44596,"date":"2016-04-06T08:24:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=44596"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T02:45:10","slug":"suzanne-zeng-appointed-to-the-advisory-council-for-office-of-language-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/06\/suzanne-zeng-appointed-to-the-advisory-council-for-office-of-language-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Zeng appointed to language access advisory council"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_44600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44600\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/manoa-zeng-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/manoa-zeng-s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/manoa-zeng-s-193x260.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzanne M. Zeng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cits.hawaii.edu\/suezeng\"><strong>Suzanne M. Zeng<\/strong><\/a>, a community liason with University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa College of Languages, Linguistics &amp; Literature&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cits.hawaii.edu\/\">Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies<\/a>, has been appointed by Govenor David Ige to serve as a member of the Language Access Advisory Council for the Office of Language Access for the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>. The purpose of the office is to address language access needs of limited English proficient individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Zeng has been with the Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies since 1992. She conducts research and teaches on topics such as principles and theory of interpreting, medical and court interpreting and interpreting skills and techniques.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;As an advisory council member, Zeng will help to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>establish statewide goals and objectives to improve access to programs, services and activities of state and state-funded agencies by limited English proficient individuals<\/li>\n<li>coordinate language access plans by state and state-funded agencies<\/li>\n<li>oversee and monitor compliance by state and state-funded agencies of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s language access law<\/li>\n<li>provide training on language access technology<\/li>\n<li>resolve complaints<\/li>\n<li>work with private and public agencies to address resource needs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lll.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Languages, Linguistics &amp; Literature<\/a> Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/lll.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/about\/welcome-from-the-dean\"><strong>Jeffrey Carroll<\/strong><\/a> says Zeng will make an excellent Language Access Advisory Council member. He notes that beyond her experience within academia, she has extensive practical experience applying her knowledge in a multitude of settings&#8212;from courtrooms to international conferences. Zeng is also a certified trainer for the national Bridging the Gap medical interpreter training program and has helped translate and edit books and other works into Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Zeng, a Kaimuk&#299; resident, received her <abbr title=\"Master of Arts\">MA<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD<\/abbr> in Chinese linguistics from <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa and holds certificates in Chinese-English simultaneous and consecutive interpreting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne M. Zeng has been appointed by Gov. David Ige to serve as a member of the Language Access Advisory Council for the Office of Language Access for the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[163,598,9],"class_list":["post-44596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44596"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86302,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44596\/revisions\/86302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}