April 2015

TIS Alumni Profile – Selima Ben Chagra

UWM Translation and Interpreting Studies alumna Selima Ben Chagra now works as a Liaison Officer and Translator/Interpreter at the United Nations Mine Action Service in Libya. She wants current students to know that is never too late to follow your dreams, and that having a successful career doesn’t necessary mean giving up on your studies.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.