Luis Gabriel Rojo

Gabriel has worked in the Washington DC metropolitan areas local communities since 1994 serving in various capacities including mentor, social worker, program manager, conflict resolution practitioner, and organizer. At his current job as the Executive Director of Tenants and Workers United, Gabriel leads a membership-based, democratically-controlled grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice and power for low-income people of color in Northern Virginia. Before that, Gabriel served as the Director of the DC Office of Human Right’s Language Access Program where he worked to implement the DC Language Access Act of 2004 by holding agencies covered by the law accountable for providing the District’s limited and non-English proficient residents with greater access to and participation in their programs, services and activities. Prior to that he worked at the DC Mayor’s Office of the Ombudsman for Public Education where he conducted impartial and confidential case-based conflict resolution services for District residents with problems related to the public education system. The local non-profit sector is where the remainder of his career was focused, and in such organizations as the Andromeda, the Columbia Heights and Shaw Family Support Collaborative, and the Latin American Youth Center. In addition, he received masters degrees from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and from Howard University’s School of Social Work. He received a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland in College Park after serving in the U.S. Army for three years. Gabriel graduated from Woodrow Wilson SHS in 1988 and was raised in the District after immigrating to the U.S. in 1975 from Uruguay at the age of five. Most importantly, Gabriel the proud father of a three year old boy named Joaquin.