Where Voices Meet
VoicesVoces is committed to delivering high-quality professional interpreting services. We offer Interpreting services to medical facilities, schools, and the worker's compensation industry.
Mission Statement
Facilitating Communication Between Voices That Need To Be Understood
VoicesVoces Interpreting Services takes pride in offering quality professional interpreting services in the spirit of bridging communication challenges.
Meet the Owner
Ana Olivarez-Levinson, owner of VoicesVoces is a professional Independent Contractor in Spanish Medical Interpreting. She acquired her certification from the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters (NBCMI) in 2015. She is proficient in English and Spanish.
Ana’s bicultural background has allowed her to integrate cultural competency into her interpreter work when navigating the role of message converter to cultural clarifier.
Ana was born in Los Angeles, California to Mexican parents and spent her early childhood living in Mexico where she attended elementary school. As a result, she has sensitivity, understanding and respect for the immigrant experience. Attending school in both the U.S. and Mexico provided her the base for acquiring the grammar and reading skills necessary to navigate the two worlds of bilingualism and biculturalism. Her interpreting journey began in childhood when she was needed to interpret for her parents at medical or school appointments.
Prior to becoming a medical interpreter Ana worked as a Clinical Social Worker with the Latino community primarily serving non-profit community, city, and county medical health agencies. She entered the medical interpreting field in 2013. She regularly received assignments at UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children Hospital Mission Bay in San Francisco, California which were highlights in her early training experience.
Since then, Ana has worked in a variety of settings from medical to mental health, educational, social service, personal injury, and worker compensation cases. She has the skills in managing different modes of Interpreting from consecutive, simultaneous to sight translation.
“I am glad to have found the career with roots that began in my childhood.” - Ana Olivarez-Levinson
We Are Unique
VoicesVoces understands the many obstacles facing Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients in obtaining quality interpretation such as lack of awareness of language rights and language access opportunities, poorly trained non-certified interpreters, and families who are dependent upon their children for interpretation assistance.
VoicesVoces strives to maintain the highest confidentiality standards regarding personal and healthcare information. VoicesVoces adheres to strict ethical boundaries and takes pride in respecting healthcare interpreting standards, protocols, and ethical principles. VoicesVoces is able to provide virtual remote interpreting by using a HIPAA complaint platform.
VoicesVoces Interpreting Services is AB 5 compliant.
