Who we are
Local office, global reach.
We are minority-owned and operated in Lexington, Kentucky; but via our comprehensive services we provide local, national, and global reach to your company. Please visit our services for more detail.
Small, but successful.
We are a small company, and we are proud of that. Our efficient size affords us the ability to streamline service offerings, personalize client service, and give intense focus to each project, assuring a successful and satisfying result for our clients. We assign a project manager to each client, who closely administers every step of the process, guaranteeing that your project progresses and concludes exactly the way you want it.
Professional affiliation.
We are members of the American Translators Association, the International Medical Interpreters Association, and the South Eastern Medical Interpreters Association.
Great management creates great results.
What makes us different and successful is that our owners-managers are experienced professionals in the services we provide. Our management team possesses the imperative skills to personally and prudently evaluate and manage the services we supply and the contractors we employ.
Our Owner-Management Team: Professional Profiles
Pure Language Services, Inc. is owned and managed by two bilingual professionals with distinct strengths and specializations.
Danielle Turpen
CEO, Interpreter
Danielle Turpen holds a Master of Fine Art from Wayne State University in Detroit, and a Bachelor of Fine Art with a Minor in Spanish from the University of Kentucky. She is a native speaker of English who has perfected her Spanish language skills over the past two decades through university courses, self-study, world travel, specialized interpreter and educator training and teaching. She has been interpreting professionally for 8 years, and teaching Spanish and English-as-a-Second-Language for 10 years at home and abroad. She specializes in Spanish Medical Interpreting and Social Services Interpreting.
Beatriz Cardona-Adams, MBA
CFO, Translator
Beatriz Cardona-Adams holds a Master of Business Administration from Sullivan University in Lexington, KY and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Texas A&M International University in Laredo, TX. She is a native Spanish-speaker born in Bogota, Colombia. She specializes in translation, including: medical product manuals, engineering, business, government and legal documents. She also performs interpretation, narration and transcription work in English and Spanish.
Our translation review team
Our review team comprises physicians, manufacturing product engineers, and other industry-specific professionals who review each translated document within their area of expertise and provide suggestions and amendments during the multi-step translation process.
Here are a few of them:
Juan Felipe Gutierrez MD, MA
Coordinator of Language Access and
Cross Cultural Communication
T.J. Samson Community Hospital
Nelson A. Atehortua, MD, MPH
Graduate Diversity Fellow
Doctoral Student Fellow of the Mexican-American
and US Latino Research Center (MARLC)
Department of Health and Kinesiology
Texas A&M University
Jose J. Cardona-Lopez
Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literature
Texas A&M International University
Harold González
Product Engineer
Lexmark International, Inc.
Our contractors
We carefully evaluate the skills, experience, and area of expertise of our independent contractors to ensure they possess the superior proficiency necessary to represent our company and serve yours.
