Wartburg College graduate Nataly Kelly, a leading authority on translation and interpretation, will reschedule her Tuesday, Feb. 25, talk due to a family emergency.

Kelly had planned to discuss her book, “Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World,” sharing an insider’s view of the ways translation spreads culture, fuels the global economy, prevents wars, and stops the outbreak of disease, using examples of the role translation plays at Google, NASA, the United Nations, the World Cup and more.

Her address at 11:30 a.m. in Neumann Auditorium is free, and the public is invited.

A 1996 graduate of Wartburg and later a Fulbright Scholar in sociolinguistics, Kelly is vice president of market development at Smartling, a cloud-based translation management company based in New York City. She speaks Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, German, Irish Gaelic and some Arabic and has visited 36 countries. 

Kelly has worked in the language services industry as an interpreter, consultant and manager, advising organizations from small technology start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

She has spoken at venues ranging from the North American Summit for Interpreting to the European Commission and contributed to the New York Times, BusinessWeek, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and huffingtonpost.com. She also publishes “The Interpreter’s Launch Pad,” a free monthly newsletter for interpreters.

Kelly helped design a language-access curriculum for Georgetown University Medical School and was selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health as an adviser on a curriculum for culturally and linguistically appropriate disaster response.