Vanessa Kubota is a translator/interpreter of Tibetan language and a lawyer. She has authored over 200 translations of endangered Tibetan literature, and has studied Sanskrit, philology, and hermeneutics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed a Fulbright scholarship at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies University in Varanasi, India. Her most recent translation, “Loving Life As It Is,” the teachings of Tulku Jigme Wangdrak Rinpoche, has been published by Penguin Random House in 2024. Vanessa has also authored articles on the intersection of law, language, and ethics in various journals and magazines, including the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Law360, Multilingual Magazine, and others. All views are her own and do not represent the views or opinions of her employer.