Isabel M Virgen

Isabel Virgen (she/her/ella) is a queer disabled master's of social work student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During her undergraduate studies, she worked at the UIC Disability Cultural Center coordinating accessibility for events, writing the weekly newsletter, and espousing disability justice principles. She has also held roles in the fields of gender-based violence prevention, behavioral research, marketing, and art. Her interests include mental health, disability, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, art as a healing practice, and more. She has a passion for cultural competency and trauma-informed care training. Isabel feels called to help communities through advocacy and policy change in order to tear down the structural barriers that clients face that may lead them to seek therapy, such as structural inequality and racial discrimination. In her free time, she loves to paint and read books.