Multilingual Student Translators seeks to hire students from our school to translate non-confidential materials for Kealakehe’s campus. This would help create a more welcoming environment for students and families, give our students valuable work experience, and elevate the power and value of multilingualism. Students will receive training and will begin translating a backlog of materials for our campus. After that, we will market their skills to the wider community. Our goal is to have local non profits contract our students to translate communication of their organizations. This has the potential to help us build a sustainable model for the program. Additionally, students can also receive academic credit towards graduation through their participation in training and in the program.

Natalie Lalagos has always loved learning: so much so that she never left school and is now a Spanish teacher Kealakehe High School and a department head. She believes that teachers come to us in all forms and is therefore a student of Improv at the Aloha Theatre, a Fulbright Teachers For Global Classrooms Fellow, a hula student, a hiker, and a weekly library patron. Natalie is fascinated by languages and believes that they are one of the levers by which we can make our community a more welcoming and equitable place. She is currently working on building a Multilingual Student Translator program at Kealakehe where students will grow their translation skills so that we can be inclusive of all the voices of our community.