As a strategic leader Jeannette has helped mainstream brands achieve global growth and transformation. As an advocate and volunteer, she founded Translation Commons, an online volunteer nonprofit community, offering free tools and resources, helping graduates acquire working experience and creating visibility through global impact programs such as the Language Digitization Initiative. Working with UNESCO for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, we create resources and offer technical assistance to any community which wishes to digitize their script and increase their language related digital capabilities. Working with Unicode we help communities with their script encoding, font design, keyboard creation as well as language specific tools such as spell checkers, terminology banks and repositories, MT and incorporation of their script with major internet applications. Jeannette is currently a member of the UNESCO Ad-hoc group for creating the Global Action Plan for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.
As the past CEO of CommuniCare, a life-science language services provider with offices in London, Paris, Athens, Budapest and Los Angeles, she has been involved in high-profile projects such as the Genome Project and prototyping the online Unified Submission Process for the European Medicine Agency. She is committed to volunteerism and she has founded, served on the board of directors, moderated and participated in various educational, women's and health charities.
She is a language advocate working at the intersection of technology, language access and human rights, supporting global efforts towards increasing access to critical information/services and equal digital representation beyond language barriers, as well as creating proactive responses to social, educational, economic and environmental challenges that involve speakers of all languages, including Indigenous languages and underrepresented languages.