Who we are

Small agency; big service.

We are proud to be a smoothly-running, small agency which is women-owned in Lexington. Our efficient size affords us the ability to streamline service offerings, immediately respond to our clients, and closely-evaluate and support our contractors. We confidently offer the best-of-the-best.

High standards.

Our CEO is a board member of the South Eastern Medical Interpreters Association and active member of the International Medical Interpreters Association and American Translators Association. We proudly implement the national Standards of Practice and uphold the Code of Ethics of our profession.

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 necessary to personally and prudently evaluate and manage the services we supply and the contractors we employ.

Our Owner-Manager Professional Profile

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 10 years, and taught Spanish and English-as-a-Second-Language for 12 years at home and abroad. She is a Qualified Spanish Interpreter for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and a qualified Spanish Medical Interpreter.

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
Fellow of the Mexican-American and US Latino Research Center (MARLC)
Center for the Study of Health Disparities (CSHD)
Child and Adolescent Health Research Laboratory (CAHRL)
Department of Health and Kinesiology
Texas A&M University

Harold González
Product Engineer
Lexmark International, Inc.

Our contractors

We carefully evaluate the skills, experience, and training of our independent contractors to ensure they possess the superior proficiency, appropriate area of expertise, and highest ethical practices necessary to represent our company and serve yours.