Joe Ziegler, BS, CMI, is president and co-founder of Vocalize, as well as a first-year medical student at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. Growing up in Barcelona, Spain, he regularly faced difficulties with the language barrier in medicine. Becoming a certified medical interpreter, Ziegler began training and organizing interpretation services in 2017 for Michigan State-based temporary clinics in Peru. Taking his experience in healthcare interpretation with him to Columbus, he co-founded Vocalize with the mission of training medical interpreters and providing their services free of charge to free and charitable clinics.