Brenda González
Position title: Director of Community Relations
Email: brenda.gonzalez@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-695-0308
Address:
92 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Dr
Madison, WI 53706
As Director of Community Relations at UW–Madison, Brenda González serves as the university’s primary liaison to local community organizations, nonprofit partners, and local government. She leads the development of strategies that foster meaningful engagement between the university and the broader community, ensuring strong, collaborative relationships across sectors.
Prior to joining UW–Madison, Brenda worked as the diversity manager for Agrace Hospice & Palliative Care and as a community and health equity manager for Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin. On campus, she served as the health equity career development program manager with the Collaborative Center for Health Equity at the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Brenda has a bachelor’s degree in social psychology from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco in Mexico City, Mexico, and has done graduate course work in social innovation sustainability leadership at Edgewood College and linguistics and communicative disorders at UW–Madison.