Carmen L. Gonzalez is a California Certified Court Interpreter, and a NBCMI Certified Medical Interpreter. She has been interpreting extensively in the Labor Commissioner Office, the Worker’s Compensation and Administrative Hearings Systems in the San Francisco Bay Area over the course of fifteen years. She graduated from the San Francisco State University Legal Court Interpreters Program, and the Paralegal Program. She has professional experience creating and teaching safety and health protection on the job training programs for operators in the water and wastewater industry in her native country Nicaragua. She holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from the Central American University (UCA) in Nicaragua. She is also a Business Administrator from the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE). She loves learning languages and teaching.