Gabriela Grostic Certified Court Interpreter for the Salt Lake Federal Immigration Court. I obtained my certification in 2002. I have been a professional interpreter for the last twenty five years. I have been a conference interpreter since 1987 and started my career as a Court Interpreter for Third District Court In Salt Lake City Utah since 2001. I graduated in 1997 from the University of Texas at El Paso I received a Bachelor degree in Communications with a minor in Translation and Interpretation. I attended and completed the Interpretation course at The Institute for Court Interpretation at the University of Arizona Agnese Haury in 2001. I have been working as an independent contractor as a trainer for the past 15 years. I have participated in teaching the Certified Court Interpreters workshop as a trainer and facilitator since the year 2002. I have been one of the two lead instructor for the Approved Court Interpreter workshop non-language specific for the Administrative Offices of the Court for the past 10 years . I have trained for the past 5 years Federal Immigration Court Interpreters in the Washington Interpreters Conference. In 2012 I received my certification of completion for Bridging the Gap Medical interpreters. In 2014 I was approved by the Administrative Offices of the Court in Utah to teach Continued Education Courses for Certified Court Interpreters. In 2014 I was appointed by the Judicial Council to serve on the Language Access Committee for a three year term.