Elsa Menendez

Elsa Menendez serves as Field Representative on the staff of US Senator Martin Heinrich. Formerly the Director of Performing Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, she has spent more than 35 years working in theatre around the world as a writer, director, producer, and performer. She has been co-facilitator of the Cultivating Women’s Leadership retreat through Bioneers, and a co-founder of the Women Leading Change initiative. A certified life coach, Elsa also served as an Artistic Director and Core Artist of Tricklock Company, and a member of the Sofia Center’s Wild Leadership facilitation team. Elsa is a facilitator and teacher of various local, national, and international workshops, symposiums, and retreats. Her mission is love and her passion is to connect and co-create in intercultural environments with diverse groups of collaborators. Elsa utilizes the wisdom of play, creativity, and the physical body to support leaders of all ages toward personal, community, social transformation, and systemic changes that celebrate all forms of diversity and equitably lift and value all living things. Her latest creative endeavor is a project with POC artists investigating the impact of white supremacy culture on climate change, supporting national-level artists to create locally-inspired climate solution actions.