2024 Tony Winsor Award Recipient
Nina Scott, MSHS, CMI-Spanish
Nina Scott, MSHS, CMI-Spanish is the Director of Interpreter Services at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an instructor and language coach for the Massachusetts Medical Interpreting Training Course via ForHealth Consulting at UMass Chan Medical School and is a member of the Forum on the Coordination of Interpreter Services (FOCIS). Previously, Nina served as an instructor for the Medical Interpreting Course at Boston University, as Manager of Interpreter Services at McLean Hospital and as a board member of FOCIS and worked as a medical interpreter at UMass Memorial Medical Center and Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston. Nina has a BA in International Cultures and Economics from Bentley College and a MS in Management in Human Services from the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
2023 Tony Winsor Award Recipient: Zarita Araujo-Lane, MSW, LICSW
Zarita Araujo-Lane, MSW, LICSW has 25 plus years of experience and is recognized as one of the leading presenters on cross-cultural communication tools for small and large institutions servicing an array of professionals working in educational and healthcare fields. Ms. Araújo-Lane has been invited to present and conduct national and international trainings on cross-cultural topics and medical interpreting to both large and small groups, using creative tools such as case scenarios and storytelling, and has vast experience working with cross-cultural populations in medical and mental health organizations.
Zarita Araujo-Lane, MSW, LICSW has 25 plus years of experience and is recognized as one of the leading presenters on cross-cultural communication tools for small and large institutions servicing an array of professionals working in educational and healthcare fields. Ms. Araújo-Lane has been invited to present and conduct national and international trainings on cross-cultural topics and medical interpreting to both large and small groups, using creative tools such as case scenarios and storytelling, and has vast experience working with cross-cultural populations in medical and mental health organizations.
She is the president and founder of Cross Cultural Communication Systems, Inc. ™ (CCCS, Inc.™), a small woman- and minority-owned business since 1996, with 18 staff members and over 200 on-call interpreters and translators. CCCS, Inc.™ provides qualified cultural-linguistic services to healthcare, educational, legal, and business by creating a seamless environment of teamwork and collaboration between customers, freelancers, and staff members while delivering innovative, respectful, and reliable quality interpretation, translation, and training services to a diverse population with regional, organizational and individual needs.
Ms. Araujo-Lane was the director of a mental health cross-cultural team for over ten years at Health and Education Services in the North Shore area of Massachusetts. She has published articles on cross-cultural management including chapters written in 1996 and 2005 on “Portuguese Families” for the second and third editions of the book, Ethnicity and Family Therapy, by Monica McGoldrick. In addition, she was the main developer for Videos and Manual on Medical and Mental Health Interpreting.
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