Brenda Hilbrich began her work as an organizer with SEIU Healthcare Minnesota in 1998. She continued her work in SEIU with the international union and locals in Wisconsin and New York before returning home to HCMN in 2005. During her years with SEIU she has organized new members, led negotiations for pattern setting contracts and first contracts, designed and built the Member Action Center to effectively and efficiently address member grievances so that the union could also focus on organizing in worksites, and developed new and expanded leader programs to provide opportunities for any member to engage as a leader of our Union. She has served SEIU HCMNIA as an Organizer, Assistant Organizing Director, Director of the MAC and Education and Chief of Staff. She has served as an Executive Vice President of SEIU Healthcare MN & IA since 2020. She earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.Ed from the University of Minnesota.