Leah Whitney Chavez of World Speaks Omaha on How Language Access Shapes Communities

Episode 203


Leah Whitney Chavez is the founder and executive director of
World Speaks Omaha, a nonprofit that works to expand language
access in Omaha. World Speaks offers low-cost tutoring and
language classes, and translation services in more than two dozen
languages to businesses and other organizations.


World Speaks is also launching the Open Doors Initiative later
this year. The program is meant to provide community members
whose first language isn’t English with free interpreting
services to access affordable housing.


Michael Griffin is in conversation about Whitney Chavez how her
multicultural childhood impacted her career trajectory, the nuts
and bolts of translation services, and ways that community
members can keep culture at the forefront of language education.


Originally aired 8-5-24