Shauna Singh Baldwin has been an Authorized Punjabi Interpreter for the Wisconsin courts since 2023, and an Authorized Hindi Interpreter since 2024. 

Shauna is a native speaker of English who grew up in India. She has interpreted in Hindi and Punjabi in person, online and via phone for 

• initial appearances 

• bail and bond hearings 

• preliminary hearings

• arraignments

• restitution hearings 

• competency hearings

• name change hearings

• divorce hearings

• traffic court cases

• temporary restraining orders 

• domestic abuse and harassment injunction hearings 

• juvenile guardian and custody hearings

• plea hearings

• consent decrees 

• probable cause commitment hearings 

• criminal trials

Shauna has sight-translated documents and questionnaires. She has authenticated translations of recordings from Punjabi to English for trials.

To date, Shauna has completed more than 100 interpreter engagements for the courts. She is highly organized, reliable, skilled at multi-tasking, professional in attitude, and perceptive in interpreting.

She volunteers for Ablenow.org to read to the visually-impaired, and narrates audiobooks in English. A former radio-host, Shauna serves on the board of Wisconsin Public Radio.

Previous experience:

Technical writing in English for Versiti (The Blood Center of WI).
RFP writing for credit union software for Samaha and Associates consulting group.
Brand Management for The Safe House, the iconic espionage theme restaurant in Milwaukee, WI – web site content writing, graphic design coordination, HR documentation, systems management, vendor management.
Disaster recovery planning and documentation.  IT Project Management for debit card networked payment systems

In addition, Shauna is the author of 3 novels, 2 collections of short fiction, two works of non-fiction, and a play. Her poetry collection is forthcoming from McLelland Stuart Canada (Penguin RandomHouse of Canada). See www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com