Meet The Open Mic Team
We're a tiny little team of language lovers and volunteers working across several continents. We're here to build the most vibrant translation community on the web.
Dmitry Kornyukhov
Founder/Lead Developer
Founder of The Open Mic. English-Russian Translator. Video game localization specialist. Co-host of Translators on Air. Helping small and medium-sized businesses go global. Loving every minute of it.
Julia Thornton
Community Manager
Experienced English-Russian translator and interpreter providing businesses and companies with quality language services.
Eleonora Angelici
Community Engagement
German-Italian and English-Italian freelance translator in the technology and marketing fields.
Elena Alieva
Editor of The Open Mic Daily/Weekly Newsletter
English-Russian freelance translator with extensive knowledge of financial accounting and business processes gained through university studies and years of past professional experience.
Elena Tereshchenkova
Senior Project Manager
English and German into Russian translator specializing in creative translations. Co-host of Translators on Air. Cat lover. Learn more at wordsboutique.com
Karen Montaldi
Community Engagement
Karen is an English to Portuguese and Portuguese to English translator based in Chicago. She was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, prior to moving to the USA in 2011. Today she has 5+ years of experience translating primarily research (protocols, SOPs, group discussions, etc.).
Marcela Torres Suárez
Community Engagement
English and French into Spanish and Galician freelance translator specialized in scientific dissemination. Avid learner and language lover.
Claudia Befu
Community Engagement
Localization expert with 10+ years in the online business. Creating content strategies and solutions for medium and large enterprises. Mentoring, educating and consulting are part of my daily life and passion.
Spyros Balesias
Blog Submissions Moderator
Spyros graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University in 2016. He was born and raised in Preveza, Greece, but he prefers the upbeat environment of bigger cities. He is a translator of legal and financial texts and interested in content writing both professionally and for his own amusement. He speaks English, German, and he is making progress with Spanish. Last but not least, he enjoys translating, but tries not to make a big fuss about it!
Things he loves: translation (of course), writing and reading.
Things he hates: having many ideas, but so little time.
Ebtihal Ziyadah
Featured Articles Curator
A very simple person , adores cats , music, translation and volunteering and sometimes reading books. :D
Isabelle Struk-Thibert
Social Media Promotion
Freelance French-English translator and interpreter, specializing in the Culinary Arts, Travel & Tourism, and in Information Technology. Cat lady, music aficionado and traveler.
Anna Giulia Musso
Forum Development
More than 10 years of experience as translator from German, English and Dutch into Italian. Specialized in technical, automotive and medical texts. Grew up and studied in Italy, worked in Germany, married a Belgian and currently lives in the USA. Boundaries are made to be crossed.
Mariana Vieira
Forum Development
Studied Classics because ancient languages are as thrilling as crossword puzzles and crime books. Translates from (modern) English and French because she still believes that words will save the world.
Carina Lucindo
Social Media Promotion
Carina Lucindo Borrego studies languages since she was a child. She has a BA in English and Portuguese and has been working as a professional translator since 2003. She has three kids and a cat, and works at her home office in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Zoya Katsoeva
Social Media Promotion
Zoya is an English into Russian translator specializing in audiovisual (subtitles and voice-over) translation, business, tourism, psychology and education fields. She is truly passionate about languages, different cultures, cinema and social sciences.
Hector Reyes
Social Media Promotion
Hector was born in Venezuela.He studied petroleum engineering at Instituto Universitario de Tecnologia de Cabimas. He has worked for very important companies such as TBC BRINADD and MI DRILLING FLUIDS. He reached an advanced level of English at Centro Electronico de Idiomas; an academy accredited by ACCET (Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training). He has been working as a translator for less than a year.
Érika Batista
Social Media Promotion
Érika is a Brazilian translator, working with Russian, English and Brazilian Portuguese languages. Passionate about Christ, books and languages, she's a writer and a bachelor of Laws, specialized in Civil Procedural Law. Her prefered fields are the Human Sciences (sociology, politics, philosophy), religion, music, legal translation and, above all, the literary translation. She runs the project "Literatura Russa para Brasileiros" (Russian Literature for Brazilians) since 2012, translating Russian poems and tales into Portuguese and writing about Russian writers and their books.
Special thanks to our supporters!
The Open Mic is possible thanks to the generous contributions of our awesome supporters. Here they are:
Daniele Giulianelli, Pieter Beens, Silvia Giancola, Ana Lourenço, Elise Hirsch, Lorena Santonocito, Laura Cattaneo, Mariann Makrai, Domenico Trimboli, Liliya Rusavskaya, Maria Bertilsson, Enrico Antonio Mion, Claudia Botero, Kozue Macmichael, Aurélie Perrin, Valérie Karam, Becky Pearse Romera, Tracy Peel, Stanislav Okhvat, Elena Tereshchenkova, Biljana Stojanovic, Gert Van Assche, E.S. Dempsey, Fabio Descalzi, Vanesa Álvarez Ortiz, Karen Sharp, Erik Hansson, Marie-Claire Cruz Schwarz, Igor Goldfarb, Jae Min, Alexey Tsapov, Dmytro Nehrii, Martina Russo, Natalya Sgibneva, Nancy Matis, Jesse Tomlinson, Giovanna Maria Parisi, Francesca D'Asdia, Katerina Katapodi and Isabelle Struk-Thibert.
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