Brenda Salgado is the founder of Nepantla Consulting and program director of the Racial Healing Initiative. She is a spiritual and mindfulness author, speaker, wisdom keeper, healer, and organizational consultant. She has 25 years of experience in transformative leadership development, nonprofit management, traditional healing and ceremony, mindful leadership training, women’s health, and social justice. Brenda is in the process of establishing the Nepantla Land Trust, and the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. She holds degrees in biology, developmental psychology, and animal behavior.
In the past, she has served as the director of the East Bay Meditation Center, as associate director at Wisdom & Money, and as a senior fellow at the Movement Strategy Center. Brenda currently serves on the Advisory Board for The Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & InterSpirituality, as well as The Center for Healing and Liberation. Brenda is author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.
She is also the founder of Moons Rising Women’s Circle, and has taught, facilitated and led ceremony at numerous gatherings. Brenda has received training from elders in traditional medicine and healing ceremony in Purepecha, Xochimilco, Toltec and other indigenous lineages.