Global Career Opportunities & Languages is a forum held on February 27, 2007 at George Washington University’s Marvin Center, in Washington, DC. The purpose of the forum was to inform young people of the potential careers they might find that would It was presented by the National Museum of Language (NML), in collaboration with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), and the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC). This segment is a highlight of the talk given by Everette Jordan the founding Director of the Intelligence Community's National Virtual Translation Center. In this role, he and his staff have created a national cadre of translators whose mission is to handle the overflow of foreign language material needing translation by the various agencies and bureaus within the Intelligence Community. A translator by training, Mr. Jordan has held several working-level, managerial, administrative, and staff positions within the Intelligence Community and Capitol Hill. Realizing that language ability is a perishable commodity, he works to maintain his proficiency in Arabic, Russian, and Spanish. He holds a B.A. in Russian from the University of Md. and an M.A. in Theology from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.