Harvie Jordan was a founding member of AATIA in 1984 and a passionate advocate for translators and interpreters. After Harvie’s passing in 2002, then-President Michael Blumenthal launched the Harvie Jordan Fund and invited members and the community of T&I professionals to donate in Harvie’s honor.
In 2024, AATIA President Maria Nelson established the AATIA Harvie Jordan Scholarship to carry forward this legacy of service and to honor one of our founding members. She established a committee and recruited other T&I language professionals to serve. Committee members can be viewed here: https://aatia.org/our-team/
The Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association (AATIA) is proud to offer the Harvie Jordan Scholarship to two qualified applicants – one specializing in spoken language and one in signed language. This scholarship recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a strong commitment to pursuing licensure or certification in the field of interpretation and/ or translation. One award will be given to an up-and-coming spoken language interpreter or translator, and the other to an emerging signed language interpreter.
The scholarship recipients will each be awarded $500 to be used however is deemed appropriate towards attaining certification and/ or license-related expenses.
Eligibility:
- Individuals who plan to take, or have already taken, their first translation or interpreting performance exam (written, oral, or signed) in the 2026 calendar year.
- Individuals currently residing in Austin, Travis county, or surrounding areas: Williamson, Hays, and Bastrop counties, including Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Leander, Taylor, Kyle, Hutto, Bastrop, Buda, Manor, and Elgin.
Please note:
- Individuals who have sat a performance exam in the past and failed are eligible to apply.
- Individuals are not required to be current students or graduates of academically accredited translation and interpreting degrees or certificate programs to be eligible to apply.
- Individuals with an expired license or certification wishing to retake their exam are not eligible to apply.
- Individuals who worked as certified interpreters and/ or licensed translators in countries outside the United States who require to sit a performance exam to work in the US are not eligible to apply.
- The scholarship award is not contingent on a passing grade.
👉 To apply, please visit the link below and complete the application form: https://forms.gle/CjpCJPPD7ajSbW7j7
If you experience any issues with this application, or wish to apply and don’t have a Google email account, please email the Chair at info@aatia.org
The application will remain open through October 4, 2026.
Meet Our Past Recipients
To learn more about the impact of this scholarship, we invite you to view our previous recipients:
Meet our 2024 AATIA Harvie Jordan Scholarship winner: Cecilia Solís-Bautista
Meet our 2025 AATIA Harvie Jordan Scholarship winners: Tamra Daniels-Washington and Ana Ruby Rodriguez Alzate
Made Possible by Community Support
The AATIA Harvie Jordan Scholarship supports the next generation of translators and interpreters, helping to maintain the high standards that define our profession. This scholarship is entirely donor-funded, and we invite you to consider making a contribution to the Harvie Jordan Fund to continue supporting up-and-coming language professionals.