Brenda Ledesma holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Art History from UNAM, and a BA in History from the University of Guadalajara. She is a professor and researcher at the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara and a member of the National System of Researchers (SCHTI) in Mexico.

She is co-author of the books: Librado García Smarth. La vanguardia fotográfica en Jalisco (Antonio García Cubas Award 2020, «Art Book» category, INAH-Federal Secretariat of Culture), 100 años de fotografía en El Universal (Federal Secretariat of Culture-El Universal, 2016), and Ciudad de México 1917-2017. Crónica de una conquista democrática (Legislative Assembly of the Federal District-El Universal, 2017), among others; and she is the author of Fotografía en las aceras de Guadalajara.

Representación, imagen e historia (State Council for Culture and the Arts of Jalisco, 2010). She worked for the Zapopan government in 2018, preparing applications for intangible cultural heritage declarations, and from 2019 to 2020, she was a researcher in the same field at the Jalisco State Ministry of Culture.