DE LA MORA Training

Maria Ceballos-Wallis, FCCI, GA MLCI, FL CCI & CHI Spanish, is a highly experienced Federally Certified Court Interpreter and Master License Legal Spanish-English Court Interpreter for Georgia and Florida. She has worked extensively in State, Federal, and Immigration Courts, and served as a staff interpreter at DeKalb County State Court from 2011 to 2024. Maria holds an M.A. in international studies and a B.A. in communication arts with a minor in French. She has a strong background in multilingual communication, having taught at Miami Dade Community College, Florida International University, and De La Mora Institute of Interpretation. A dedicated advocate for the interpreting profession, Maria co-founded InterpretADR and developed "Foundations in Conflict Resolution and ADR for Interpreters," the first online training of its kind. She also hosts the audio and video podcast "Subject to Interpretation," where she interviews industry experts on topics relevant to professional interpreters.

Barrie J. Roberts is a co-creator, along with Maria-Ceballos Wallis and Marjory Bancroft (Cross-Cultural Communications) of Foundations in Conflict Resolution and ADR for Interpreters, the first online training of its kind to provide ADR training for interpreters. She is also the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Administrator for the Los Angeles Superior Court and the former ADR Administrator for the Riverside County Superior Court, working in both counties with judges, court staff, attorneys, neutrals and community mediation organizations to provide high-quality alternatives to trial.  She completed Cross-Cultural Communication’s 20 -hour Online Interpreter Training course in May 2020. As an ESL instructor at the university level, she created “Mediation as a Second Language” (MSL) courses to combine ADR and ESL for international students at UC Berkeley. Before working in ESL and ADR, Barrie was a staff attorney with Legal Services of Northern California, Inc., representing low-income persons in Sacramento.She has provided teacher training in MSL at international conferences including TESOL, Global Legal Skills, and the Global Negotiation Symposium at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She is also an online mentor in legal English for a female attorney in Kabul, Afghanistan.Barrie holds a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley, a J.D. and Certificate in Public Interest Law from UC Hastings College of the Law, an LL.M. from the Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and an M.A. in TESOL from CSU Sacramento.Her publications include Conflict Resolution Training for the Classroom: What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know, University of Michigan Press, E-Book Single (2020) and Using Getting to Yes to Teach English, Negotiation and Other 21st Century Skills, Journal of Research Institute, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, 58 (77). (2018)