has a PhD in clinical and community psychology with a rural and indigenous emphasis from the University of Alaska. She has been working in collaboration with community-based organizations and community brokers, leaders and traditional health workers to address the mental and emotional health needs of the Latinx community. She has developed and managed multiple culturally specific community-driven programs and grants focused on “bringing mental health” to the Latinx community, removing stigma and supporting mental health access and utilization of services by underserved communities. She has extensive training and experience regarding culturally specific curriculum development, program development and evaluation. 

Dr. Zúñiga serves in several board of directors and advisory boards of Latinx community-based organizations in Oregon. She is a consultant for the Oregon Health Authority in regards to Latinx community mental health and trauma/healing informed care and practices. In addition of being the co-founder of Helyos LLC, she is the cofounder of Raíces de Bienestar, a non-for profit which focused on supporting culturally grounded mental health and wellness services and programs for Latinx. 

Dr. Zúñiga has been teaching, researching, consulting and presenting in the subject of Latinx mental health and wellness and program evaluation for 10 years and has been providing culturally grounded mental health services for over 15 years in the areas of resiliency, immigration, healing and trauma informed care, chronic disease management, and overall mental health concerns. 

She is an associate professor, licensed psychologist and clinical supervisor. She is also the director and founder of Sabiduría: Latinx Psychology Emphasis at Pacific University, an academic and clinical program focused on training culturally informed masters and doctoral level clinicians to work with the Latinx community.