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Brenda Garcia Portillo

UDEM
Director of Internationalization at Home
Mexico

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Brenda García Portillo is Director of Internationalization Projects at the University of Monterrey.
Brenda has 23 years of experience in the area of ​​international education. Currently, her main responsibilities are the coordination of both, the Intercultural Competence Training Program at the UDEM and the internationalization at home activities such as COIL. She has been coordinating the COIL/VE projects for approximately 10 years at UDEM. She consults on topics related to intercultural competences and COIL in national and international forums. She is a co-founder member of the LatAm COIL consortium and is part of the steering committee of the IVEC conference. She is also the creator and coordinator of the ODUCOIL platform for ODUCAL, and content developer and consultant for the PIC AMPEI US -MX program. She also was the coordinator of the COIL initiative at the Compostela Group of Universities. In her tenure as COIL coordinator, she has managed to position UDEM among the Mexican HEI’s with the highest participation in COIL projects nationwide.
She has also done research in the evaluation of learning objectives in international experiences and in the development of intercultural competences. She has been an active member of the Mexican Association for International Education (AMPEI) since 2001 and served as Coordinator of the Northeast Chapter. She was member of the board of directors of SIETAR-Mexico (2017-2018). She has a bachelor's degree in International Studies and a Master's Degree in Education, both from the University of Monterrey. She has a Diploma in Internationalization of Higher Education from Colegio de las Americas and a Diploma in Intercultural Studies from the University of British Columbia in Canada, as well as several certificates in the subject of Intercultural Competences and International Education from North American and European institutions.