My name is Amy Lesiewicz, and I’m the newest member of the S&TD’s Leadership Council. I’ll be joining Tess Whitty as blog editor. I was pleased when our fearless leader Karen Tkaczyk asked me to join the leadership council, because I’ve found a home among my fellow scientific and technical translators. We’ve all heard things like “Google Translate may be good enough for technical documents, but it will never replace literary translators” or “Someone translating into their non-native language might be able to cope with a technical text, but for marketing materials you really need a native speaker”. I was …
