Belinda Hernandez

Dr. Belinda Hernandez , EdD., M.S.W. describes herself as a passionate, values-driven, and authentic leader. With a background in social work, sociology, community health, service-learning leadership, and higher education administration her career has expanded over multiple industries including nonprofits, healthcare, community health, and higher education. She is currently an administrator at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a visiting faculty at the University of the Pacific. For over 15 years, Dr. Hernandez has operated the Hernandez Consulting Group, Inc. collaborating with client organizations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Dr. Hernandez earned degrees in Sociology and Chicana/o Studies from UCLA, a master’s degree from UC Berkeley, and her doctorate from the University of the Pacific. Her research perspective is rooted in asset-based thinking that explores the mentoring and leadership development experiences of underrepresented women and people of color within executive leadership. Her research and practice include the exploration of intersectionality, as well as the identification of social capital and community cultural wealth. She aims to improve educational and workforce development strategies that eliminate the racial and gender leadership gap of underrepresented groups in executive leadership. She has been invited to present her research at mentoring and educational conferences, and as a guest lecturer at colleges and universities. Her niche includes mentoring constellations, service learning methodology, leadership development, qualitative research methodology, and manual data analysis methodology. Dr. Hernandez’s development of a researcher self-reflexivity process model educates researchers on the process of self-reflection and action-oriented researcher reconciliation.

Publications

Exploratory Approaches to Service Learning Within a University's Student-Run Free Clinic Program
Exploratory Approaches to Service Learning Within a University's Student-Run Free Clinic Program
Belinda Hernandez. © 2024. 20 pages.
University-administered student run free clinics provide health care and enabling services to community members experiencing limited access to care, simultaneously offering...