Jose Alfredo Herrera is a Mexican immigrant, originally born in the Yucatan Peninsula. In 1989, he moved to the US, specifically to the Los Angeles area, where he developed a 14-year career on Public Health. In 2006, he relocated to Georgia, at the Cartersville area. Through his community involvement, immediately identified the huge need of professional interpreters to cover the needs of those limited English speakers in the area. He began offering his services as an interpreter at a local law firm, schools and other places where he was required. He discovered that it was kids at schools and naive interpreters those helping others. That’s why, on October 30, 2011, Language link LLC was born and rapidly welcomed in the area by schools, court houses and other institutions. But soon discovered that there was other two companies with the same name in the West coast, one with excellent reputation. The name was given to the Company and for 8 years survived building its own path and credibility. On January 1, 2019 the Company finally changed names to Beacon Link, LLC All of these years, Beacon Link, it’s been honored to serve multiple school districts in and out of the state of Georgia, Judicial Circuits, Case Management, Independent Adjusters, Insurance Companies, immigration and the Workers Compensation Industry. Beacon Link built its own professionals’ database, and now has over 15,000 interpreters nationwide, including American Sign Language, and a worldwide network of professional translators in basically all fields. Only for on-site/in person interpretation, we have facilitated at the moment, an average of 13,114 interpreter service hours. For years, José Alfredo provided the opportunity to all of those people that approached him and express her desire to become professional interpreters. After taking a refreshing 40-hour medical interpreter training in Georgia, he developed his own mini curriculum and devoted his time to provide people with the basic structure to perform the job; allowing everyone to individually pursue their professional growth. The incumbent produced excellent results, for which I personally feel that any time invested to this task, was very well invested. In 2017, José Alfredo become a licensed interpreter trainer, so now Beacon Link has the capacity to train it’s own interpreters in the Educational, Medical and Community Interpreter fields.

Zoraida Castro is a Millennium entrepreneur born in the State of California. In 2006, her family relocated to Phoenix, Arizona where she attended the University of Phoenix. She obtained a bachelor’s in science in Criminal Justice Administration with a concentration on Human Services degree. Since her school days, she started working at Harkins Theaters, later becoming an Assistant Manager. Later on, she accepted the challenge of becoming the owner of Beacon Link and is now applying her knowledge and experience to enhance the company. As the oldest child of 4 in her family, Zoraida was the one taking the role of interpreting for her parents at early stages in her life. In late 2020 she took the 40-hour Interpreter Training in order to better understand the nuances of being an interpreter but also of running a business in the field.