Carol Velandia is the Founder & CEO of Equal Access Language Services, board member of Vamos Juntos Association, associate professor at University of Maryland, and award-winning advocate for language access and language justice. With nearly 15 years of experience in interpreting, translation, and training; through tbolab and by tbomedia, she created the Effective Inclusion Through Language Access (EITLA) course, now taught in higher education. Carol works globally to design strategies that expand meaningful access and equity through professional language services.