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 migrated to the United States from Mexico with her mother and two younger siblings. 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 to begin deconstructing racialized theologies. She is the recipient of the Thesis of the Year award from Fresno Pacific University and the Mustang Fellowship from Southern Methodist University. Vega Quiñones’ research interests include sociotheological racial formation, womanist and Latina feminist theologies, borderland epistemologies, virtue and migration Ethics, and epistemologies of buen vivir.