Yeni Silva Renteria

Yeni Silva Renteria has worked with children and families for more than fifteen years, including Latino families nationally and internationally who have experienced trauma. She is collaborating with innovative initiatives focused on services to refugee and immigrant families with a variety of community organizations. Yeni graduated from Wichita State University with a master’s degree in social work in 2015. Yeni managed programs in the United States including leading the organization’s affiliation with U.N. Global Communications and managed Migration Ministries which provided services to refugee families in the community and internationally by collaborating with the University of El Salvador and a team of social workers in Centro America developing an evidence-based model to work with and in communities with high levels of violence. Yeni is an adjunct professor at Wichita State University in the Social Work Department. Yeni is also a social justice advocate that helps promote community engagement and empowerment to promote change on a local, state, and federal level. She is an associate of the Congregation of Saint Joseph. Yeni was appointed to by Governor Laura Kelly to serve Kansas Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and recently elected to the Community Task Force. Yeni is the younger of 12 siblings and first one to graduate from a University in the United States.