Translator Valeria Wasserman Chomsky is from Brazil. She is the second and current spouse of Noam Chomsky, an American social critic, novelist, philosopher, and linguist. Her early life and family are hardly understood. Wasserman began studying law at Universidade Federal Fluminense in 1984. She also began studying linguistics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro that year. In 1992, Wasserman started working professionally. She began her career as an investment analyst at Unibanco. She began working as a legal claims assistant at Corey R. Cutler’s law firm in 1995. She also served in a variety of roles with the legal firms of Little Faces LLC, Ralph A. Donabed, Intentia, and the National Association of Magazine Publishers in the years that followed. She began working as a translator at ArtVentures Cultural Projects and Translations in July 2009. In 2014, Wasserman wed Chomsky, 35 years her senior.
Early Life & Childhood
Brazil is where Valeria Wasserman was born in 1963 or 1964. Her early life and family history are largely unknown. She chose to study law at Universidade Federal Fluminense after high school, where she attended from 1984 to 1986. Between 1984 and 1988, she also studied Portuguese and English at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She completed a capital market analysis specialized course at Universidade de São Paulo in 1995. She speaks Portuguese and English equally well as a translator. She spent a significant portion of her life in the Brazilian region of Poços de Caldas.
Career of Valeria Wasserman
In 1992, Wasserman secured her first position with the now-defunct Brazilian bank Unibanco following her graduation. For the next three years, she was employed there as an investment analyst. She began working as a legal claims assistant at Corey R. Cutler’s law offices in December 1995. Then, in March 1997, she was hired as a legal assistant at Ralph A. Donabed’s law offices, where she worked for the next eight months before taking a two-year hiatus.
She became an assistant at Intentia in July 1999. The software business Intentia offered services like asset management, supply chain management, and customer relationship management. In 2001, Wasserman decided to pursue print translation instead of focusing solely on legal business. She worked at the National Association of Magazine Publishers as the director’s assistant from October 2001 to October 2003. She decided to take another break from her profession after leaving her job, this time for almost three years. She established Little Faces LLC, her own business, in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 2006. It has since stopped being operational, though.
In July 2009, she started working at ArtVentures Cultural Projects and Translations as a translator, translating from Portuguese to English and vice versa. A company called ArtVentures offers a forum for artists of all stripes to interact with one another, including authors seeking translation services and translators seeking employment. Wasserman has translated everything from research papers to entire books while she has been employed at ArtVentures. Among her well-known works are “Hope and Religion” by David Lehmann, “The Environmental Impact of Mining in the State of São Paulo” by Andréa Mechi e Djalma Luiz Sanches, “Atlantic Rainforest Law: Environmental Regression” by Roberto Varjabedian, and “Where Converging Minds Freely Explore: Locating the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies” by Dianne Newell.
Connection to Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, who is regarded as “the father of modern linguistics,” grew up in Philadelphia in a middle-class Ashkenazi-Jewish immigrant family. He became interested in anarchism from a young age. He started studying philosophy, mathematics, and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania when he was sixteen years old. He obtained his M.A. in 1951 and then went on to Harvard University to obtain a doctorate in 1955 for his theory of transformational grammar. He became an assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) two years later. Chomsky became an Institute Professor Emeritus after working there for most of his career. He became a laureate professor at the University of Arizona in 2017. Chomsky is a well-known proponent of socialism and anti-imperialism who has written more than 100 books on subjects ranging from mass media and war to linguistics.
Chomsky was previously wed to Carol Doris Schatz, a fellow linguist and expert in education. From 1949 till her death in 2008, they were wed for 59 years. The couple had three children: a son named Harry (born in 1967) and two girls, Aviva (born in 1957) and Diane (born in 1960).
In 2014, around six years after the death of his first wife, Wasserman and Chomsky were married. They split their time between Brazil and the United States, frequently visiting each other’s families. Chomsky’s interest in matters about Brazil has grown in recent years. He has visited former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in prison and criticized Jair Bolsonaro, the president-elect.
Net worth of Valeria Wasserman
The estimated net worth of Valeria Wasserman is about $5 million.