She started using her bilingual skills at 18 going back to Winters High School, from where she graduated, to help migrant students as a bilingual aide for the program California Mini-Corps: She interpreted lessons, tutored, and translated materials for the Spanish-speaking students for four years. Eva also worked as an intern for the Department of Education at the Bilingual Education Office and the Special Education Division.
From there, Mrs. Molina - De Vilbiss joined the UC Davis Medical Center-Medical Interpreting Services team, with whom she worked for 5 years, starting as an interpreter/translator, becoming translation unit coordinator and, later on, office manager. At the Medical Center is where Eva found her passion for interpreting and translation: To serve the Spanish-speaking community by using her bilingual fluency and communication skills to make critical information available and comprehensible to all who need it. After that, she worked in management for other companies for a couple of years and finally decided that the best way to make a difference and do what she really loved was to become a free-lance interpreter / translator.
Among her interpreting and translation accomplishments are being a narrator for an educational video, the translation into Spanish of a book written by Dr. John Weinberg, media materials published in newspapers, scripts used in radio and TV, etc. Eva has also taught community college courses in Spanish, has been a K-12 substitute teacher, has become involved in training others about cultural competency when working with non-English-speakers, and helping others become interpreters themselves. Eva is an active member of the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA), is involved with the American Translators Association (ATA), and is part of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society – Sigma Delta Pi. She is very glad to have worked with the program Healthy House in a series of projects including participation in the CHIA/MMIA Certification Test for Interpreters. She has taken the Connecting Worlds Language Proficiency and Interpreting Skills Assessments in Spanish and English and had close to perfect scores. She has passed the Medical Interpreter Competency Examination administered by the National Center for Interpretation-University of Arizona. She also passed the FBI SLTB for Language Specialists/Contract Linguists. Eva received the CHIA Healthcare Interpreter of the Year Award in 2008, after being nominated for the award the second year in a row. In 2010, she was named IMIA California State Chapter Representative.
Mrs. Molina - De Vilbiss has had the great opportunity to travel all over the world and is always eager to learn from other cultures and put that new knowledge to work to the advantage of not only the Spanish-speaking community, but also the many different communities in our area.
Eva holds a B.A. in Italian with a Japanese minor and an M.A. in the Spanish language from California State University, Sacramento. She is a firm believer in on-going education and has attended courses and training workshops that amount to more than 500 hours.
From there, Mrs. Molina - De Vilbiss joined the UC Davis Medical Center-Medical Interpreting Services team, with whom she worked for 5 years, starting as an interpreter/translator, becoming translation unit coordinator and, later on, office manager. At the Medical Center is where Eva found her passion for interpreting and translation: To serve the Spanish-speaking community by using her bilingual fluency and communication skills to make critical information available and comprehensible to all who need it. After that, she worked in management for other companies for a couple of years and finally decided that the best way to make a difference and do what she really loved was to become a free-lance interpreter / translator.
Among her interpreting and translation accomplishments are being a narrator for an educational video, the translation into Spanish of a book written by Dr. John Weinberg, media materials published in newspapers, scripts used in radio and TV, etc. Eva has also taught community college courses in Spanish, has been a K-12 substitute teacher, has become involved in training others about cultural competency when working with non-English-speakers, and helping others become interpreters themselves. Eva is an active member of the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA), is involved with the American Translators Association (ATA), and is part of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society – Sigma Delta Pi. She is very glad to have worked with the program Healthy House in a series of projects including participation in the CHIA/MMIA Certification Test for Interpreters. She has taken the Connecting Worlds Language Proficiency and Interpreting Skills Assessments in Spanish and English and had close to perfect scores. She has passed the Medical Interpreter Competency Examination administered by the National Center for Interpretation-University of Arizona. She also passed the FBI SLTB for Language Specialists/Contract Linguists. Eva received the CHIA Healthcare Interpreter of the Year Award in 2008, after being nominated for the award the second year in a row. In 2010, she was named IMIA California State Chapter Representative.
Mrs. Molina - De Vilbiss has had the great opportunity to travel all over the world and is always eager to learn from other cultures and put that new knowledge to work to the advantage of not only the Spanish-speaking community, but also the many different communities in our area.
Eva holds a B.A. in Italian with a Japanese minor and an M.A. in the Spanish language from California State University, Sacramento. She is a firm believer in on-going education and has attended courses and training workshops that amount to more than 500 hours.
