Professor Gladys Ortiz Henderson holds a Ph.D. in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM); MA in Media Studies from the University of Sussex, UK; BA in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

She is currently a Professor C in the Department of Cultural Studies at the UAM Lerma Campus, Estado de México, Mexico.

From 2012 to 2016, she was Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at this same university. She is currently Head of the Research Area "Studies on Digital Culture". She has been a member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Level I since 2016.