Language for Justice
Breaking down language barriers to dismantle systemic inequity.
An OGA project
Language as a bridge, not a barrier
Language for Justice (LFJ) is OGA’s language access project. We connect professional interpreters and multilingual talent with initiatives working for social and environmental justice.
We prioritize multilingual people from the Global Majority, BIPOC, refugee, migrant and other historically underrepresented communities, through training, mentorship, recommendations and real opportunities to practice. We are a small team of volunteers, and for us language work is connection, preservation and resistance, never extraction.
What we do
Three ways we work
Training
A free, six-week online introduction to interpreting, translation and professional autonomy, grounded in decolonial practice and open to people from Global Majority countries.
Community and mentorship
After the course, trainees stay in the network, with peer support, mentor matching when volunteers are available, CV and LinkedIn guidance and shared opportunities.
Interpreting for justice
Our network supports grassroots and social-impact events, such as the premiere of Flowers of the Earth, with Guarani-Kaiowá leaders, and SILA, a documentary on Inuit women in Greenland.
In numbers
A growing network
600+
linguists in the Language for Justice network
13
interpreters certified in our first cohort, in 2025
189
applications for our second cohort, in 2026
46
trainees selected for the second cohort
Figures from OGA’s own records, October 2026.
Cohorts
Our path so far
2025
Cohort 1
Our first cohort trained Palestinian interpreters. Thirteen were certified, and we share their stories in the Meet our Palestinian Talents series.
2026
Cohort 2
A free, six-week online program from August to September, with trainees from across Global Majority countries. We share their journeys in the Cohort 2 Talent Series.
Next
Cohort 3
We are preparing the next cohort. Write to us if you would like to join or support it.
Talent stories
The people behind the network
Our trainees and graduates share their journeys in their own words on our LinkedIn page.
Cohort 2 Talent Series
Erangi Bandara
Sri Lanka, a nation that refused to give up.
Rolando Murga
Guatemala: finding my way through languages.
Cohort 1: Meet our Palestinian Talents
Stories from the interpreters and translators of our first cohort.
Causes
Projects we have supported
Reading support for girls in Syrian displacement camps
Refugee and Global Majority voices in poetry
Bioremediation of war contamination
Lithium extraction in Latin America
Flowers of the Earth and SILA, with SAND
Interpreting for Science and Nonduality events with Guarani-Kaiowá leaders and Inuit women from Greenland.
Watch
From our YouTube channel
COLLABORATE with us
Need interpreters for a justice event?
We connect grassroots organizations, festivals and social-impact events with interpreters who share their values. Interpreters and multilingual people who want to join the network are also welcome to write to us.
