Allison Corbett (she/her) is a Spanish<>English interpreter, oral historian, and language justice consultant. Over the last ten years, she has worked in both large institutions and grassroots community settings to advance equitable cross-language communication and listening and has facilitated workshops on language justice for a diverse set of audiences, including community organizers, oral historians, educators, literary professionals, city employees and volunteer collectives. Allison graduated from the Oral History MA Program in 2015 and founded the Language of Justice Project in 2016, a bilingual multimedia oral history project that celebrates and recognizes the work of people who create and maintain multilingual spaces in community organizing and social movement-building. In 2020, she co-facilitated the workshop "Decentering Dominance: Language Justice in the Field with Fernanda Espinosa." She partners with organizations to build their capacity to facilitate equitable cross-language communication and create projects that nourish the development of strong, multilingual communities engaged in the work of self-determination and societal transformation. She also works in partnership with Fernanda Espinosa as part of the collaboration Decentering Dominance (see separate listing).
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Location: New York City
Languages: English, Spanish
Looking for: Part Time, Freelance, Consulting
Skills/Interests: Interviewing, Teaching (full classes), Teaching (workshops), Presenting, Consulting, Multimedia, language justice, Spanish, bilingual, project design, outreach planning, capacity-building, multilingual projects; curriculum development
Email: corbett.allison@gmail.com