Jenny Lam-Chowdhury
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Executive Director and CEO
United States
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Executive Director and CEOAmara Translation and SubtitlingJul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)- Executive Director and CEOParticipatory Culture Foundation PCFJul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)
- Culinary, Audiovisual, and Literary TranslatorEating With My Five SensesMay 2018 - Current (8 years 6 months)Eating With My Five Senses was born out of a personal passion to use food as a bridge for connection, storytelling, and cultural appreciation.
On Eating With My Five Senses, I publish videos with English and Spanish subtitles I create as a volunteer to:
✅ Promote cultural exploration – Encouraging learning, understanding, and compassion by discovering diverse cultures, people, and traditions through food.
✅ Enhance video accessibility – Providing inclusive content for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities and English/Spanish audiences, ensuring everyone can experience the richness of global culinary traditions. - Operations Manager | Subtitling, Translation, and LocalizationAmara Translation and SubtitlingAug 2013 - Jun 2024 (10 years 11 months)Results-driven operations manager with expertise in subtitling, translation, and localization. Skilled in optimizing workflows, managing cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality multilingual content delivery. Passionate about streamlining localization processes and fostering collaboration between linguists, project managers, and technology teams.
Core Responsibilities & Expertise:
✅ Strategic Operations & Team Leadership – Lead and collaborate with a team of Project Managers to oversee end-to-end localization workflows, ensuring seamless execution of subtitling and translation projects in partnership with country-based and multi-language service providers.
✅ Workflow Design & Process Optimization – - English & Spanish Captioner & Subtitler | Spanish Language CoordinatorTED TranslatorsJan 2013 - Current (13 years 10 months)✅ Subtitling & Captioning: Contributed to the creation, review, and approval of over 400 English and Spanish subtitles for TED, TED-Ed, and TEDx talks, ensuring accessibility and linguistic accuracy.
✅ Spanish Language Coordination: Mentor and Language Quality Assurance (LQA) specialist for Spanish subtitles within the TED Translators community.
✅ Process & Quality Improvement: Collaborate with fellow Language Coordinators to enhance guidelines, workflows, and quality standards, driving consistency and excellence in Spanish subtitle localization.
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- IInstituto de Neurociencia de las AméricasInstituto de Neurociencia de las Américas
- FFrench Institute Alliance FrançaiseFrench Institute Alliance Française
- CChina InstituteChina Institute
- New York UniversityNew York University- Professional Certificate in Global Affairs - Professional Certificate in Translation - Professional Certificate in Communications - Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
- AAulaSICAulasic
- Universidad Central de VenezuelaUniversidad Central de Venezuela- Bachelor Degree in International Studies - Diploma in Antropology of Food and Flavors
- University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington