Claudia Mandalà is a community officer at Translators without Borders (TWB), where the role of her team is to build, manage and engage a diverse global community of over 30,000 volunteer linguists who support TWB’s mission to raise awareness of language barriers, build local capacity in marginalized languages, and enable two-way communication. Before starting out her career as a freelance translator in 2016, she studied and worked at the University of Trieste in Italy, through which she also worked as an intern at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.