Noemi Vega Quiñones

Credentials: BA, California State University / MA, Fresno Pacific University Biblical Seminary/ PhD, Southern Methodist University (Present)

Denomination: Mennonite Brethren

Specific Field: Ethics and Social Theory

Biography: 

Noemi Vega Quiñones is a PhD candidate in Religious Ethics. Vega Quiñones migrated with her family to the United States when she was five and fell in love with reading when she was eight. Her undergraduate research focused on severe mental illness and burden of care in Mexican American communities of California’s Central Valley. Vega Quiñones’s master’s research focused on covenant epistemology and an evangélica theology of Emmanuel. She received the Thesis of the Year award from Fresno Pacific University, the Mustang Fellowship from Southern Methodist University, the Schubert M. Ogden Award for Academic Excellence in Theology, and the Louisville Dissertation Fellowship. Vega Quiñones’s research interests include virtue ethics, buen vivir, migration, Latina Feminist epistemologies, and co-constructive ethnographies. Vega Quiñones aspires to contribute to the work of migration ethics en conjunto with her communities.