Orly González Kahn holds a BA in Modern Language and Literatures from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MA in Translation Studies from El Colegio de México. She has studied the work of Samuel Becket as a self-translator and has published work on the history of translation and cultural identity in Latin America and on Spanish localization. She currently works at Google, where she is responsible for the content localized for Spanish-speaking Americas.