Rosa Kavenoki

Rosa Kavenoki was born in St. Petersburg, Russia where she obtained her MA in Spanish Linguistics and Literature. In her post-graduate studies, she continued to work with the same topic that interested her in college: developing dictionaries of word frequencies by subject matter. She also worked with a small team of scholars who created machine translation corpi of technical and scientific terms. Subsequently, Kavenoki developed a dictionary of Mayan word frequencies which was the first of its kind at the time.

 

Professor Kavenoki’s life took a different turn when she went to work as the public relations director for a major Russian drama theater. She also worked directly with playwrights on play development and editing, and was involved in selecting material for productions. In addition, she translated two plays into Russian, one from Italian, the other from Spanish.

 

Throughout her career she has continued to do freelance work in Translation and Interpretation, using Spanish and Italian at first, then English after moving to the U.S in 1985. She has worked with expansive and eclectic subject matter for such organization as the U.S. Secret Service, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, International Launch Services, and the International Olympic Committee, among many others.