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...addition to using her Spanish for her work at Centro Presente, Gordon has used her knowledge of languages to do legal and medical translating for Linguistics Systems International. She also used to volunteer as a Spanish translator at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish...
...Gordon says her involvement in activities away from Harvard has in large part been spurred by a desire to befriend people of different generations and from different backgrounds. And her interest in social issues goes far beyond refugees' concerns. She is concerned with women's rights, gay rights, and civil rights in general...
...really like having friends in Cambridge, who have nothing to do with Harvard," says Gordon. "It's so important to me to have friends that are older and friends that are younger...
...Gordon says that now, especially when she walks through Central Square, she often runs into her clients from Centro Presente and meets their families. "My life is divided between my Central American friends and that whole community on the one hand, and the Harvard community on the other...