Rita Pavone, PhD, MS, MPhil, MA, CCMS

Founder of Minerva Translations & Language Services

Interpreting | Translations | Cultural Competence and Cross-Cultural Communication | Public Speaking

- Northeastern Translators Association (NOTA) PR Chair since 2023.

- Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association (AATIA) Interpreter Special Interest Group (ISIG) Program Coordinator (2013-2024).

Founder of OnPoint Research and Consulting

Education | Research | Public Speaking

Artificial intelligence, communications, criminal justice, cultural competence, education, ethics, healthcare, interpreting, legal, public policy/regulations, and translation.

Additional experience:

Clinical data management, clinical research, and quality assurance, psycho-rehabilitation and studies comparison, foreign relations, and immigration.

Graduate and undergraduate courses instruction

Communications, conflict management, criminal justice, critical thinking, diversity issues, ethics, healthcare administration, innovative leadership, political science, public administration, and public speaking.

Honors and Awards

-  Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Doctoral Summit 

   Scholarship Recipient and Alumna.

- Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society.

- Kentucky Commercialization Ventures, Innovation   

  and Ecosystem Builder Fellow.

- MSI Fellow.

- MSI Continuous Improvement Professional Award.

- Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society for Public Affairs and

  Administration. 

- Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology.

                              - Sigma Alpha Pi National Honor Society of Leadership and

                                Success.