Galina S. Pendill
Vice President
Galina S. Pendill was born in Riga, Latvia, and came to the US as a “displaced person” after World War II,
in l949.
She graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York and worked as an art director and illustrator
for several major advertising agencies for nearly twenty years.
In 1974, Mrs. Pendill made a career change and became a Russian language conference interpreter, working for many
NGO's, businesses and government organizations. Her new position allowed her to travel often to the Soviet Union and
witness many of the changes that took place in the past 30 years. In 1990, Mrs. Pendill founded Russian Interpreting
Services (RIS), an interpreting and translation firm, serving as its President until 1999, when she and her husband
Grant retired and began working as volunteers for ARAA-Otrada, as the Pendill Russian Orphans Program (PROP). For seven
years, the Pendills have conducted a program in which over forty-five disabled Russian orphans participated annually.
In the fall of 2005, Galina and Grant Pendill founded the Pendill Fund. |
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