Brenda González

Brenda González is the Deputy Director for New Routes to Community Health. Previously she was Manager of Interpreter Services and Cultural Outreach at Dean Health System in Madison. She is a founding member of the Wisconsin Coalition for Linguistic Access to Healthcare and belongs to numerous other healthcare and Latino organizations.

González brings more than a dozen years’ experience working on access to healthcare for linguistically isolated groups, community outreach, and partnerships. She has a wide breadth of experience in providing training and technical assistance on issues of cultural competence and community building.

She holds a B.A. in Social Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco, Mexico City and has done graduate work in Communicative Disorders and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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