Biograhpy | angelo-cabrera

Angelo Cabrera: Founder & Board of Director of MASA and Founding board of The American Dream Charter School.

Angelo is the founder of Masa. He started the organization as part of a 2001 campaign focused on attaining the right for undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition at CUNY and SUNY schools. In 2002, he began to focus his efforts at Masa on promoting access to higher education for students of Mexican descent living in New York.

He is also a funding board of director at the American Dream Charter School to serve recent immigrant students in a “Dual Language” program, grades 6th to 12th area of Mott Haven, South Bronx.

Having immigrated to the United States at the age of 15, Angelo has firsthand experience and understanding of the complex barriers Mexican youth in New York City face. Since he was a teen, Angelo has been committed to public service and has volunteered at several non-profit organizations. He has also worked closely with CUNY officials and the office of the Mexican Consulate to engage the Mexican community in several initiatives through targeted outreach strategies.

Angelo has served on several committees in the Mexican community and participated in panel discussions with scholars and politicians, both local and from Mexico. He also worked with the Office of International Relations at the Benémerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) to create special projects promoting study abroad opportunities. In addition, he was a columnist for El Diarío de México USA and a recipient of various awards from both in the USA and Mexico. He has also appeared in various English and Spanish media outlets, such as the New York Times, ABC Eyewitness News, People Magazine en Español, Primer Impacto, and Despierta America of Univision and Telemundo 47. People Magazine described Angelo’s life in its story “El Angel de la Educación” (the Angel of Education). Book to be release early 2020, entitled “Angelo Cabrera’s School and Life Trajectories, and His Struggle for the Right to Education”

Currently, Angelo is working at Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs - Baruch College as a Community and Social Service Specialist / Program Assistance leading. She also managed a longitudinal research project for the Mexican Initiative on Deferred Action. Angelo holds a Master’s in Public Administration and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Baruch College, and Associates Degree in Computer Programming from BMCC. Angelo is an alum of CORO’s Immigrant Civic Leadership Program and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Executive Education: Leadership, Organizing and Action program.