Victoria Feito Torrez is based in Buenos Aires and an advocate for plain legal language and access to justice. Being a translator and an attorney, she works as a Legal English Language specialist in Argentina’s biggest law firm. Her work involves improving the technical-language aspects of texts, assessing the Firm’s lawyers on linguistics-based argumentation, and training professionals in linguistics, with a focus on plain language. She teaches language, interpretation, and argumentation at the National University of La Plata Law School. She also teaches plain legal English in Argentina and Mexico and writes about plain language and access to justice for different law journals and books.
Hugo Sousa has been campaigning for plain language for over 15 years in Portugal. He is a UX writer and researcher. Currently he is head of business operations at Claro. He has worked on the portuguese ISO plain language standard and wants to support plain language spreading throughout the world. He is also board member of Access Culture, a portuguese NGO that promotes physical, social and intellectual access to cultural participation.
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Margrethe Kvarenes for her temporary contribution to the board. When we were short of two board members, Margrethe stepped in to fill the gap. Her passion and dedication have ensured that our membership committee is back on track. We will miss Margrethe on the board, but we’re confident that the new board members will be able to build on her excellent work. And so we welcome Victoria and Hugo, both first time PLAIN board members.
