Claudia Castellanos is the Founder and CEO of Connected World Translation (CWT), the only translation company based and operated in Saskatchewan actively offering services in 46 languages including two Canadian Aboriginal languages. Claudia holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG) and a Master of Education Degree from the University of Regina. With more than 20 years of experience as a translator and hundreds of multilingual translation projects successfully completed under her direction in numerous fields, Claudia has been a key player for Canadian companies, organizations, and academic institutions aiming to enter international markets in countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, among others. Claudia and her team have made CWT a global agency by engaging in translation projects with medium-to-large corporations from the USA, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, in which they have proved their reliability, expertise, and professionalism.

CWT was a proud recipient of the Business Excellence Award for translators and interpreters by Consumer Choice Award in 2019, recognized as Invaluable Service Provider by the University of Regina International Office in 2020, selected among the Best Business in Canada by the Canadian Business Review Board (CBRB) in 2021 and 2022, and recognized as a promoter of the Spanish Language by Canadá Habla Español and SKLatam with the support of the Consulate of Mexico in Calgary, City of Regina, City of Saskatoon, City of Calgary, and Hispanos en Regina - Community Services Incorporated SKLatam in 2023. Further, Connected World Translation was a proud finalist for the 2023 ABEX Service Award by the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce.

Claudia actively works with vital global economic sectors ranging from manufacturing, agriculture and agrivalue, mining, and forestry to education, providing language services to a wide array of public and private sector clients nationally and internationally. Further, Claudia and her team have provided translation and interpretation services to companies attending major farming technology and livestock events such as Agritechnica in Germany, the Canada Farm Progress Show (CFPS), the Canadian Western Agribition, to name a few. Moreover, CWT was also the main translation and interpretation service provider at the 18th North American Trilateral Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Conference hosted by the University of Regina. In addition, CWT was proud to be the agency chosen by Euroconsult, the leading global consulting firm in space markets based in Paris, France to execute the translation of an extensive business plan proposal and the marketing materials for the Latin American Satellite Communication and Broadcasting Summit (LATSAT) in Mexico City. Claudia and her team have also collaborated in multilingual translation projects of great impact with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), the Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services and Ministry of Trade and Export Development, the Saskatchewan SWIS Coordination (SSC) in collaboration with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP), and much more.

CWT prides itself on teaming up with more than 55 highly qualified professional translators including linguists, academics and certified translators from organizations that operate under the national body of the Canadian Translators, Terminologists, and Interpreters Council (CTTIC), having the opportunity to provide translation services from nearly every provincial organization in Canada. One of Claudia’s main objectives is to continue supporting non-profit organizations to develop multilingual literature and helping the ever-growing linguistically diverse community in Saskatchewan with their translation needs for citizenship and other legal and government procedures.