CV
Summary
● New York State Courts Certified Interpreter for Spanish (since 2019) and Portuguese (since 2016)
● Federal US District Courts Ad Hoc French & Qualified Spanish & Portuguese Registered Interpreter (since 2017)
● Professional Medical Interpreter Training (2015-16) & Qualification Certificate (since 2017)
● Document Translator (since 1999) & Literary/Broadway/theatre script Translator (since 2019)
● Live/Mass Media, Sports TV, Simultaneous/Broadcasting, Consular/Diplomatic/UN and Press/Conference Interpreter (since 2013)
● HBO Boxing, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Philanthropies, United Nations’ member-states' missions/sister-agencies (from 2015 through 2019)
● NYU Certificate in Global Affairs (2015-16) & Brazil Bar Association Certified Attorney at law and Mediator (trained from 2007 to 2014)
● Masters degree candidate in Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer for Innovation (from 2023 to 2025)
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DEVELOPMENT & TRANSLATION
Spanish Harlem Museum El Museo del Barrio, NY
NYIC New York Immigration Coalition, NY
Regina Cunha Ophthalmology Foundation, Bahia, BR
Radio Express, Burbank, CA
Iron House, BR & AECOM, UK
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING & BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Lopes Brazil Brokers, Salvador, BA, BR
Ballet Divertimento Choreographic Center, Montreal, QC
RodMarc International Freight Forwarders, Montreal, QC
Projeto Tamar Wildlife Foundation, Salvador, BA, BR
ACONT Associate Accountants, Salvador, BA, BR
Espaço Turismo & Bahia Bella travel agencies, BR
LEGAL & FOREIGN AFFAIRS GRADUATE
Global Finance/Economics, New York University Center for Global Affairs, NY
Mediation & Commercial Arbitration, Orlando Gomes Superior Law School, BR
LLB, General Law, 2 de Julho School of Law, Salvador, BA, BR
Foreign Trade/International Business major, Universidade Salvador, BA, BR
LITERATURE & LIBERAL ARTS UNDERGRAD
CUNY Social Journalism summer academy, NY
Comparative Literature minor, University of Montreal, QC
UQAM & Ballet Divertimento scholarship, Montreal, QC
Linguistic Normalization Consortium, Barcelona, Spain
French immersion, Language Studies Canada, Montreal, QC
Web Design & Development, Real & Dados, Salvador, BA, BR
Maison Française & Cultura Española, Salvador, BA, BR
Niagara District Secondary School, Ontario, Canada
Colégio Anglo-Brasileiro, Salvador, BA, BR
AWARDS & GRANTS
International House Foundation of New York, NY, 2015-16 & 2021, NY
Staten Island University Hospital Medical Interpreting Training scholarship, NY
Bronze Medal Bahia Aquatic Sports Federation open water marathon, BR
Ballet Divertimento 3-year PTP scholarship, Montreal, QC, Canada
Class President in junior high and first year of Business College
COMMUNITY & VOLUNTEERING
NGO iChallengeMyself.org, NY
NGO Soka Gakkai International, BR
Most of New York City Hospitals listed above are where I started as a volunteer before hiring or are where I provided pro bono medical interpreting. Some of the NGOs listed above are where I also provided pro bono general office work within their institutional development and media relations dept.
CREDENTIALS & AFFILIATIONS
Barred Attorney Brazilian Bar Association, BR
US Federal & NY State Registry of Interpreters, NY
Certified Real Estate Transactions Analyst, Brazil
Medical Interpreter Certificate License, Staten Island, NY
Federal and State Court Credentials
REGISTERED as Professionally Qualified Contract Interpreter in Spanish & Portuguese and
APPROVED as Language Skilled in French since Feb. 2017 with Federal United States District Courts, debuting his first job in Spanish at Boston’s United States District Courts of Massachusetts.
REGISTERED as New York State Unified Court System CERTIFIED Per Diem Court Interpreter for the Spanish language (as of Sept 2019) & for the Portuguese language (as of Dec 2016, with 1st assignment on May 10th 2017, at The Bronx Supreme Civil Court).
LINKS & PUBLICATIONS
Co-Authored an SDG-10 Article on the United Nations ‘Chronicle’ magazine
NYU Diploma Badge on Global Affairs: http://www.
Graduation thesis: Formalization of Philanthropic Foundations, 2012, 79p.
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
Fabio Passos has lived half his life in Brazil and the other half amongst Canada, Spain and the United States; covering over-a-dozen Brazilian states, in addition to Argentina, Uruguay, a dozen U.S. states, three provinces in Canada, and endless towns in France, Greece, Holland, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic, Germany, England, Panama and Mexico.
