BOARD: Gabriel Estrada

Gabriel Estrada has spent the past 30 plus years of his professional career in the public education arena. For 19 of those years Gabriel’s most demanding and possibly most satisfying position was as a fifth and sixth grade teacher at one school in old East Austin. While there he actively participated in the development of a nationally recognized school reform model that purposely involved parents, students and the community in the education of our youth.

Since 2012 Gabriel has worked on coordinated partnerships to enhance learning opportunities for youth and their families through his position at Austin Voices for Education and Youth. This work provides strategic and critical collaboration to ensure families find stability and hope for their future. He has been an active supporter of the Austin Independent School District by serving on several committees including the Facilities and Bond Committee that helped to pass the 2017 Bond to modernize school campuses. Gabriel is presently on the Austin PBS Community Advisory Board and the Board of Directors for The Training Kitchen, an organization restoring land in south Austin for the purpose of growing food, linking community and building trusting relationships. Having been educated in the public-school systems in Austin and San Antonio, Gabriel feels that these educational places are the symbols of our nation’s promise of a better tomorrow.