Echoes of Meaning

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Echoes of Meaning explores language as the quiet force behind everything we know. Linguist and media producer Camila Sabogal Gómez talks with those on the frontlines of translation, research, and advocacy, revealing how words can build, bridge, or divide entire worlds.

Episodes

  1. The Gesture of Thought | With Helen Magowen

    11/27/2025

    The Gesture of Thought | With Helen Magowen

    What if your handwriting could speak your truth — not just your thoughts, but your posture, your breath, your presence? We sit down with Helen Magowan — researcher, writer, curator, and expert in 18th-century Japanese calligraphy. Together, we dive into a forgotten world where writing was more than text: it was performance, emotion, and embodied intimacy.

    1h 2m
  2. The Overlooked Language of Care | With Carol Velandia

    08/15/2025

    The Overlooked Language of Care | With Carol Velandia

    In this episode, Camila Sabogal speaks with Carol Velandia — advocate, social worker, interpreter, academic, entrepreneur, and founder of Equal Access Language Services — about the often-overlooked power of language access. Carol shares how the ability to speak in your own voice is not a luxury, it’s a right. From hospitals to courtrooms, she explains how language barriers shape systems of exclusion and how we can shift toward justice by centering communication, ethics, and responsibility.

    1h 3m
  3. What Shapes a Letter | With Tim Brookes

    07/16/2025

    What Shapes a Letter | With Tim Brookes

    We’re joined by Tim Brookes: writer, researcher, artist, and founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project. Through the Endangered Alphabets Project, he explores the deeper realities of writing systems dying — a loss most people rarely consider, yet one with profound consequences for communities, cultures, and humanity as a whole.

    1h 1m
  4. Language as a Test of Being | With Maryann Hasso

    06/19/2025

    Language as a Test of Being | With Maryann Hasso

    What does it mean to learn a new language when your future depends on it? In this episode of Echoes of Meaning, Camila Sabogal speaks with Maryann Hasso — Arab American educator and advocate for multilingual learners — about the often-overlooked realities of students navigating school systems not built with them in mind. In this conversation, we unpack the deep, often invisible labor of those learning to survive — and be seen — in a new language. This is a story about education, yes, but also about identity, resilience, and the quiet ways young people fight to belong.

    1h 3m
  5. Interpreting is a Human Act | With Lefteris Kafatos

    05/14/2025

    Interpreting is a Human Act | With Lefteris Kafatos

    In this premiere episode of Echoes of Meaning, Camila Sabogal speaks with Lefteris Kafatos — former diplomatic interpreter and cultural bridge-builder — about the unseen complexity of interpreting, and the value of the human craft. Or simply, the craft, if you will. They explore how interpreting goes far beyond language fluency — it requires cultural sensitivity, emotional resilience, and rigorous technique. Lefteris reflects on the shift from CAT to HAT tools, the overlooked importance of self-care, and the lack of public advocacy for linguistic labor. Together, they ask what’s lost when machines take over meaning, and how language professionals can reclaim the narrative.

    1h 9m
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Echoes of Meaning explores language as the quiet force behind everything we know. Linguist and media producer Camila Sabogal Gómez talks with those on the frontlines of translation, research, and advocacy, revealing how words can build, bridge, or divide entire worlds.

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    MultiLingual Media
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
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  • Rating
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    © 2025
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