Brenda has been a consultant with Jeanan Yasiri Solutions, LLC since 2006 and brings more than a dozen years of professional expertise to clients assisting them achieve benchmarks for cultural and language services. Brenda has specific expertise with cultural and linguistic services within health care delivery systems. She is active in advancing state and national standards for medical interpreters through her work on the Wisconsin Coalition for Linguistic Access to Health Care and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care.

Brenda is the Deputy Director of New Routes to Community Health, a new national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. New Routes is designed to improve immigrants' health, work life, and civic participation through the creation and support of local partnerships among immigrant organizations, media production centers, and established community institutions.

Brenda served as the Manager of Interpreter Services and Cultural Outreach at Dean Health System in Madison, Wisconsin from 2000-2007. In that role she supervised staff and contract interpreters who collectively speak and interpret more than 35 different languages. Under Brenda’s leadership the staff promoted and ensured the access to health care for Limited-English-Proficient (LEP) and Deaf and Hard of Hearing patients. In addition she conducted Cultural Competency trainings for clinical and administrative staff across the community.

In 2005, Brenda was appointed by the City of Madison Mayor to the Affirmative Action Commission. She is an active member of the Latino Health Council of Wisconsin, the Dane County Health Care Providers Interpreter Program and she is an executive committee member of the Latino Support Network, a Board member of the Dane County Immunization Coalition and a member of the Dane County Neighborhood Child Health Coalition. She is the Co-Chair of the United Way Diversity and Inclusiveness Committee, a member of the United Way Healthy for Life Community Solutions Team and Mental Health Sub-committee and a member of the Vision Council.

Brenda is an active volunteer for the South Madison Health and Family Center and a consultant for the Wisconsin Diabetes Advisory Group, the Diabetes Control Program and the Wisconsin Association of Perinatal Care. In her free time Brenda enjoys volunteering for Dane Dances and Amigos de las Americas.

Brenda González was raised in Mexico City. She holds a B.A. in Social Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico and has completed graduate courses in Communicative Disorders and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Following her academic studies, Brenda worked for the Madison Department of Public Health as an Outreach Specialist with a focus on drawing community connections on behalf of Latino clients.