Brenda I. Quiñonez-Cortés, LCSW, a Mexicana raised in the inner-city of Los Angeles, California is a mother, wife, and an active community member of Albuquerque for the past thirteen years. With nearly twenty-five years of professional experience, Brenda’s work extends to field counseling, medical social work, program management and other various realms of non-profit work and clinical mental health settings, school-based therapy, telehealth therapy, and, more recently, training and consulting in cultural and linguistic humility, antioppression and antiracism.

Brenda has been a contingent professor in the School of Social Work at New Mexico Highlands University. Her community involvement includes social justice advocacy and activism for BIPOC communities, in particular the migrant population and other marginalized youth and families. Leading El Puente de Encuentros (EPdE), a nonprofit organization, Brenda is committed to generating change in the field of behavioral and mental health by fostering an ethnic and racially diverse representation of professionals in the field. Placing value in familia and comunidad, Brenda is dedicated to change and equity for BIPOC communities.