Dr. Gladys Ortiz Henderson holds a Ph.D. in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, a Master’s degree in Media Studies from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom), and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She holds the rank of National Researcher Level II in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII) of the National Council for Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCYT).

She serves as a Full-Time Professor (Level C) in the Department of Cultural Studies within the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Lerma.

In university administration and research leadership, she served as Head of the Department of Cultural Studies (2012–2016) and Head of the Digital Culture Studies Research Group (2018–2023) at the same institution.