Irai Rayen Freire

Iraí R. Freire has been a freelance translator since 1995. She holds a First Certificate in English (Cambridge University, 1993). She started her career working for the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia, Argentina (Spanish > English). She graduated as a literary, technical, and scientific translator (language pair: English <> Spanish) from Lenguas Vivas “Sofía E. B. de Spangenberg" (Buenos Aires,Argentina) in 2000. She was admitted to the Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters (AATI) in 2001 and remained a member until 2014. She is now an active member of the https://abrates.com.br/ (ABRATES).

 She graduated as a journalist from Taller, Escuela, Agencia (TEA) in Buenos Aires in 1993. As a staff member with "La Maga, noticias de cultura" (magazine - culture news), she started writing articles on health topics (1993/1998). In 2000 and 2001, she worked as an off-site contributor with Salutia.com (site on health and fitness) associated with CNN en Español. She was hired as the off-site Spanish Editor of ADAM's/Dr. Tango's Health Illustrated Encyclopedia (HIE) between 2002 and 2016.  

 Between 2003 and 2014, she worked with ISI Trans translating mainly health and retirement insurance materials and some environment-related projects. 

Since January 2013, she has been living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so she has started translating from PT Brazil into Spanish and English.

At present, she is translating mainly for the healthcare sector involving projects targeted at the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S.A.