Otilia Arroyo-Sterling Founder

                            Court Certified Interpreter

 Minority Women Owned Business/ MBE Certified

In First Person was founded in 1992  by Otilia Fuentes (Now known as Otilia arroyo-Sterling) when it came to her attention the great need and demand for professional Interpreters in Western MA. Courts and Litigation Industry.

As a Business Woman and aspiring Bilingual Individual she saw and seeked the way to be properly qualified as a professional Interpreter which lead to moving the then home office to 1331 Main St in Springfield, from where as the Founder she Managed, Coordinated and together with the then acquired Team of Interpreters they were able to with ease serve the daily local need for interpreters to lLw Firms as well as for the Springfield and  Holyoke Juvenile and Housing Courts 

In 1992 "In First Person Interpreting" became the first Interpreting Agency to be established in Western Massachusetts locally providing Interpreters to the Legal Industry and Courts as an independent vendor with the MA Trial Court. 

iFPi  founder proceeded to receive a Bachelors in Language and Introduction to Court Interpreting and Translating at U-MAss in Amherst, MA, she received a  State Court Certification through the Consortium for State Courts as a Judicial Interpreter and Translator while serving as a staff Court Interpreter for 13 years for the CT Judicial Department

As In First Person Interpreting earned its accreditations and certifications in the industry it began to actively contract and subcontract with:  

• U.S. Federal Court 
• Law Firms
• MA-CPCS, CJA's
• Department of Public Defenders
• CT Justice Department
• City Law Departments
• Insurance Co's
• Private Investigators
• Medial Associations
• Immigration Court
• Social Security Administration
  

We are currently a State Court vendor in MA and CT. Contracting and Subcontracting in all fields to serve the LEP's (Limited English Proficient) individuals with Professional Interpreter Services

We invite you to experience our expertise

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860-881-3533

Certifed Interpreters

Our Interpreters are certified by the Consortium for State Courts giving us power of reciprocity to work in all state Courts in USA Our Interpreters undergo extensive Training to perfom  their legal duties and standards in the industry

iFPi stands behinds their Interpreters and the high standards of the profession.

We stand firm in the compliance of the Code of Ethics for Professional Interpreters and Translators with high standards of practice for professional interpreters.

When presenting high quality service issues to the Legislation, Senator Kohl said:

"unqualified, or untrained interpreters make mistakes. This results in the fundamental loss of the right to due process in translation, and because  lawyers and judges are not intepreters, these mistakes often go unnoticed." 

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Where does our name "In First Person Interpreting" come from?

Due to the lack of properly trained and quaified interpreters in 1992 the Judges and Lawyers had the task to give Instructions when calling us to Interpret we were  specifically instructed to interpret verbatim in the first person.

Which meant to transfer the words of the speaker just as it was said, maintain the message as the person speaking and unobstrusively Interpret  the source language to the target language while as the interpreter remain as the third person yet as the first person when interpreting, thereby eliminating the "He said she said" in order to  maintain precision and purity when interpreting.

Once we realized that concept we knew that our Business would be named after what was expected of us in the Profession, to interpret "In The First Person" and that was when "In First Person Interpreting" was born" becoming our Registered BusinessTrade name in the Interpreting Industry.

An appelate Court Judge, Judge Richard S. Brown said ' If a person can not understand what is happening in a proceeding, an unfair result might occur. And that is contradictory to what we want our courts to do; administer justice,fairly and impartially.".

"Protect your client and your case call the Experts the CERTIFIED the Professionally trained and experienced."