The Kant Kaw School of Interpretation and Translation
for those who wish to develop professional interpretation and translation skills and prepare for a career that serves an increasingly international population in Myanmar and beyond.
![]() Zin Mar Oo, Ph.D., is a founding member of Kant Kaw Education Center of Thabyay Education Foundation established in 2009 in Myanmar. As the Program Director, she leads the implementation of the Community Leadership and Social Studies (CLASS) program, the Curriculum Department and School of Interpretation and Translation (SIT). Additionally, she leads the Empowerment Program for Parliamentarians for Myanmar Parliament in Nay Pyi Taw. She also chairs Myanmar Scholarship Alumni Association (MSAA) and United World College Myanmar National Committee. As the General Secretary of YWCA of Myanmar, she oversees youth and young women’s leadership trainings and community-based development projects including financial inclusion of rural women for economic development. Her involvement with YWCA dates back to 1993 having taken on various roles in Switzerland and Myanmar. From 2001-2009, she was a Research Associate at Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand, focusing on gender issues in armed conflict, women and micro-finance, cross-border migration and citizenship.
Zin Mar holds a B.A (Honors) in English Literature from Yangon University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Gender and Development Studies from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. She received scholarship awards from Open Society Foundations, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) German Academic Exchange Service and Government of Japan. She also received the 2010 Gender, Place and Culture (A Journal of Feminist Geography) Award for New and Emerging Scholars. ![]() Joanna Dolińska, Academic Coordinator and Intructor, has been working as an interpreter and translator in the language combination English-German- Polish-Mongolian for 6 years. In her Academic Coordinator role at the Kang Kaw School of Interpreting and Translation Joanna combines her interpreting/translation work experience with teaching qualifications – she worked 4 years as an English/German teacher before coming to Myanmar, delivering classes at the University of Warsaw, National University of Mongolia and several Polish NGO’s. Joanna’s work experience is backed by a solid educational background, as she studied at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), University of Leipzig (Germany), University of Warsaw (Poland) and National University of Mongolia (Mongolia).
![]() K Khine Soe, M.A (EFL), Interpreting Instructor at Kant Kaw School of Interpretation and Translation, has been working as an interpreter and translator for 2 years in various INGOs and NGOs. Ms. K Khine Soe has over 20 years of working experience as a language teacher and 4 years experience of conducting brain activities class. Throughout her work, she has been teaching English to various age groups. Moreover, she has been delivering classes of English for professional purposes , English for academic purposes and other English language related training sessions.
![]() Kaung Hla Zan, Interpreting Instructor, has been a freelance interpreter working with several development organizations and UN agencies for over 4 years. He works as a teacher trainer at Mote Oo Education, a local NGO providing context appropriate education services to underpriviliged communities in all of Myanmar and beyond. His career path started as an English teacher and his skills evolved around CSO capacity building and teacher training. He now trains teachers of schools from different areas of Thai-Burma border and non-formal education actors from Myanmar. Kaung Hla Zan is committed to the cause of helping people to have better learning experience in a variety contexts, be it training or developing learning materials or translating and interpreting. When he is not translating or teaching, he is learning photography.
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![]() U Myint Bo, Senior Instructor of Translation, previously worked as a translator for the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Yangon for 18 years. He served as an Assistant Editor of International Affairs Journal during the Burma Socialist Programme Party rule from 1975 to 1984. U Myint Bo attended St. Albert’s High School in Maymyo and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from Rangoon Arts and Science University in 1970. His hobbies include playing chess, golf, reading and traveling.
![]() Alex Drummond, Translation and Interpreting Instructor at the Kant Kaw School of Interpretation and Translation, has been working as a translator with the language pair of Burmese and English ever since he graduated in 2012 from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, England with a degree in Southeast Asian Studies and Burmese Language. As well as being one of a tiny number of native British speakers who have reached an advanced level of fluency in Burmese language through years of meticulous academic study, he is one of a handful of native English speakers actively working as a translator of Burmese > English. He has experience providing consecutive translation between INGOs and high level government officials, speaking in Burmese in front of large audiences, and translating numerous reports and documents for organizations in the private sector. More recently, he has worked as chief translator for a prominent local news agency for the best part of year, and, outside of his time teaching at KKSIT, he is currently translating a memoir of a former member of the student resistance. ![]() Nang Lao Kham is a Program Officer at the Kant Kaw School of Interpretation and Translation (KKSIT). She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Yangon University in 2010. Lao Kham has four years of experience in office administration and facilitating meeting and workshops. Before coming to Thabyay, she worked as a facilitator for Program in Community Building at the American Center. She also served as a trainer and translator for training curriculum for iPACE (Institute of Political and Civic Engagement) at the American Center in Yangon.
![]() Eh Moo Htaw , KKSIT Intern, studies Economics as a major at the Pathein Distance University. He is an alumni of the Batch 4 CLASS (Community Leadership and Social Studies) program at the Kant Kaw Education Center. Eh Moo Htaw enjoys learning foreign languages and listening to music.
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