Noemi Vega Quiñones
Graduate Candidate in Religious Ethics
Noemi Vega Quiñones is an educator, researcher, and volunteer who is passionate about the flourishing of her communities. Her undergraduate research focused on severe mental illness and burdens of care in Mexican American communities of California's central valley. Noemi’s master’s research focused on relational epistemology and a Latina evangélica theology of Emmanuel. Noemi is a part-time Ethnic Studies instructor at Cuesta Community College while she finishes her dialogic and emic ethnography on women’s migration narratives, faith, and the burdened virtues. Noemi’s research interests include Chicane and Latine faith organizing work, Womanist and Latina feminist theologies, borderland epistemologies, virtue and migration ethics, and ethics of buen vivir.
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Rebekah Miles
Publications:
“Crossing Borders.” Latine Lived Religions and Religious Identities: !Presente! Miguel A. De La Torre and Edwin David Aponte, Ed's. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Forthcoming. September 17, 2026. By invitation.
Kohn Rivera, Natalia, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson. Hermanas: Profundiza en tu Identidad y Aumenta tu Influencia. Miami: Editorial Patmos, 2020.
Kohn Rivera, Natalia, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson, Hermanas: Deepening our Identity and Growing our Influence. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2019.
"Malachi." The Anabaptist Community Bible. Forthcoming. By invitation. Final draft accepted March 20, 2023.
Review of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio, by Felipe Hinojosa. Anabaptist Witness, 9:2 (October 2022).
Review of Justice and the Way of Jesus: Christian Ethics and the Incarnational Discipleship of Glen Stassen, edited by David P. Gushee and Reggie L. Williams. Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics, 42:2 (Fall/Winter 2022).
"Why Latino Christians Treasure January 6." Compiled by Morgan Lee. Christianity Today, January 6, 2022. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/january-web-only/three-kings-day-dia-reyes-spanish-magi-herod.html
"Prayers and Quotations for Contemplation." Christianity Today, August 23, 2021. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/teach-us-to-pray/o-love-ever-burning-prayer- quotations.html
"Go and Make Disciples. But First, Stop: The crucial first step of ministry begins with the Holy Spirit." Christianity Today, (September 2019). https://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2019/september/go-and-make-disciples-but-first-stop-holy-spirit.html?fbclid=IwAR0ptv-2VG0RyYVl1ZZ5_LGRwe-bZoO-b5VQh9JyPo9mAszoeSnL4S6m7NI.
Presentations:
“Migration in Interdisciplinary Perspective.” Convener. Migration Ethics Interest Group. Society of Christian Ethics. Washington, DC. January 2026
“Cultivating Agency: Preparation, Silence, and Resistance to Trumpian Anti-Immigrant Tactics.” The Religion and Migration Unit. American Academy of Religion. Boston, MA. November 2025.
“Evaluating the Churches’ Teaching on Migration Ethics.” Migration Ethics Interest Group. Society of Christian Ethics. Chicago, IL. January 2025.
"Does Luck (Have) Matter?: Learning Christian Ethics in Contexts of Migration," The Society of Christian Ethics Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, January 4-7, 2024.
"Ten Years After Latina Evangélicas: The Role of the Holy Spirit in Healing from Racial Formation," Society of Pentecostal Studies, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 2023.
"Tracing Latina Migrant Agency from the Mexico/U.S. Border." Poster. The Society of Christian Ethics Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 2023.
"Reclaiming Consent: A Latinx Ideological Hermeneutic on Rahab in the Wakes of #MeToo and #ChurchToo," American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature: Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum, San Antonio, Texas, November 2021.
"Response to Charles Mathews: We Are the Times: Living in an Apocalyptic Era," Southern Methodist University Maguire Symposium, Dallas, Texas, October 2021.
"An Embodied Critical Hope as a Virtue in Peacemaking," Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre Ninth Biennial Graduate Student Conference, June 2021.
"The Fire this Time: Reflections on a Year of Racial Reckoning," Christianity Today, Webinar, May 2021.
Fellowships and Awards:
2025 – 2026 Hispanic Theological Initiative Dissertation Fellowship
2024 – 2025 Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship
2024 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship Alternate
2024 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Alternate
2023 Schubert M. Ogden Award for Academic Excellence in Theology
2020 – 2025 Hispanic Theological Initiative En Conjunto Fellowship
2020 – 2025 Southern Methodist University Mustang Fellowship
2023 Schubert M. Ogden Award for Academic Excellence in Theology
2022-2023 Hispanic Theological Initiative En Conjunto Fellowship
2020-2025 Southern Methodist University Mustang Fellowship
