 Hi, my name is Susan Moon. I am a poet and I am a heritage Korean speaker and more recently in the last 10 years Invested in translating between Mandarin and English. I was invited to speak about my experience On the Alta BIPOC building our future workshop the inaugural work workshop That We got to be a part of this past summer. So I'm very happy to share my experience. I think as a Person who is trying to enter into the translation space It's always at least in the last three years as I've been trying to dip my toes into this world I often feel like the barriers to entry are quite high Outside of the act and the process of translation itself There's kind of the navigating the legal and the business side of things and then there's that huge question around Like how do I create a safe framework? to operate within as a translator and I think Something that the building our future workshop afforded for me was all levels of those questions I especially excited about the community of Emerging translators that I'm lucky to be in touch with now Both emerging and also further down their career so Thank you Alta. Thank you Alta equity advocates Thank you to the Asian American Writers Workshop and anyone else that was involved in Setting up this inaugural building our future workshop, and I hope I hope it continues on in the future. Thank you