Brenda Salgado is founder of Nepantla Consulting, and is currently in the process of establishing the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. She holds degrees in Biology (BA), Developmental Psychology (BA), and Animal Behavior (MS). Brenda has over 16 years of experience in nonprofit management, spiritual leadership, movement building, women’s health, and environmental and social justice, and has received training from indigenous elders in traditional medicine, limpias and healing ceremony. She has served on the boards of Movement Strategy Center and the Lion’s Roar Foundation, and was a Founding Member of WisdomWomen. In the past, she has served as the Director of the East Bay Meditation Center, Associate Director at Wisdom & Money, and as a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center. She is author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.

Trained by Purepecha, Xochimilco and Toltec elders in traditional medicine, Brenda draws on the healing powers of the natural world to guide her work as a spiritual leader. Her current projects are focused on mindfulness, transformational leadership, sacred economics, land trusts for social good, and the weaving of mindfulness and indigenous teachings for our times. She is committed to co creating a society filled with wholeness and beauty, and is grateful to her ancestors for the values that have led her to spiritual, healing, and social justice work.