About Us

AAPTI is committed to promoting the professionalization and advancement of translators and interpreters through strategic advocacy and public policy initiatives. By advocating for policies that benefit both language professionals and the communities we serve, we strive to increase the visibility and recognition of our field and to ensure that language services are accessible, equitable, and of the highest quality.

We are a membership association dedicated to advancing and protecting the interests of language professionals. In today's rapidly changing global landscape, the importance of our profession has become increasingly apparent, and AAPTI provides a platform for like-minded professionals to collaborate and advocate for our field.

By establishing and enforcing high standards of professional conduct, AAPTI seeks to safeguard the integrity of the translation and interpreting profession. At the same time, our work serves to protect the public, which depends on accurate and reliable communication across languages and cultures. Through our commitment to excellence, we strive to ensure that the communities we serve have access to the highest quality language services.

Our members

AAPTI is a community for alliance and partnership success; a place to share information that will contribute and guide partnership capabilities through our resources of tools, publications, learning, education, certification, networking, and other professional opportunities.

Our members are in various fields of translation and interpretation: judicial/legal, medical, conference, governmental, educational, and others. We meet to collaborate and discuss ideas related to best practices through our forums for support so that we can achieve quality and professionalism in language access.