Angela has been working as a translator, editor and proofreader since 1982 and as a consecutive interpreter since 1983. She studied French in France, Quebec, and Switzerland, and Spanish in Spain, and has lived and worked in Belgium, Italy, Honduras, Hong Kong and the Caribbean as well as Canada both as an in-house and a freelance translator and interpreter. She has traveled extensively in over 140 countries and continuously exercises her language skills.
Granted a Master of Arts in Translation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California, USA, she took her third semester of this degree at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (formerly ETI) of the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Prior to that, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Spanish (double major) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. As part of this undergraduate degree, she spent a year at the Université de Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, in francophone Canada. She also has certificates in TEFL/TESOL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), Community Interpreting, Health Care Interpreting and Interpreting in Legal Settings.
Angela is a Certified Translator (Spanish to English) of STIBC (Society of Translators and Interpreters of British Columbia) and OTTIAQ (Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec), a Certified Translator (French to English) of the ATA (American Translators Association), and has worked as an approved translator (French and Spanish to English) with the Insurance Corporation of British Colombia.
She has also provided services as a consecutive French/English and Spanish/English interpreter in the Health Care, Community, Immigration, and Human Rights sectors for a number of Lower Mainland agencies, as well as the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB), Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
From November 2019 to November 2023, Angela served on the board of the Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council (CTTIC), three years as Vice-President, and one year as Member at Large. She also served on the board of STIBC as Treasurer (January - June 2019) and Registrar (June 2019 - June 2021).
Also a literary translator, Angela has had thirty-six translated books published as of March 2024 with more in the works.