Janice Snow Rodriguez, Executive Director of the TN Language Center

Janice Snow Rodriguez is the Executive Director of the TN Language Center (TLC). She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and M.A. in Spanish Literature. Dr. Rodríguez has been employed by TLC since 1999, and is credited with researching and recommending a certification program for court interpreters for the State of Tennessee, adopted by the TN Administrative Office of the Courts. She is the Title VI Coordinator for the Institute, works on the TN Supreme Court‘s Access to Justice Committee for Interpreter Issues, and is a board member for the Metro Nashville Police Department’s El Protector Program, and recently completed a six-year commitment as a Commissioner and Chair for the Metro Nashville Human Relations Commission.

Holding a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University and certified as a Cross-Cultural Health Care Program Trainer, she has conducted numerous cultural awareness and diversity seminars for social services, medical and law enforcement agencies. She also serves as adjunct faculty for Tennessee State University‘s (TSU) College of Public Service and Urban Affairs, teaching Human Resources, Organization Theory & Assessment, and Employment Law. She serves on TSU’s advisory committee for International Education.

She is member of or professionally affiliated with a variety of organizations and associations including Sister Cities Nashville, the Japan-America Society of Tennessee, TN Latin American Chamber, Nashville Hispanic Chamber, Global Nashville Project, the Global Chamber of Nashville, Williamson County Chamber and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce.

Previous professional experience includes serving as an Information Specialist with the Voice of America’s Radio Marti Program in Washington, DC; Information Services Director with an intellectual property law firm in Alexandria, VA; software support for a legal business software company in Brentwood, TN, and adjunct Spanish faculty for Lipscomb University.

A native Nashvillian, she has two children, Javier and Claudia, and resides in North Nashville. She enjoys traveling, gardening, pottery classes, singing, and listening to live music. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese and has studied Italian and Arabic.