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Gabe Gonzalez

Campaign Director, Campaign for Community Change

Gabe Gonzalez is the National Director for the Campaign for Community Values at the Center for Community Change. The Campaign for Community Values brings together hundreds of diverse grassroots groups to win real victories for low-income communities, challenge the "on your own" mentality of the right and build a new politics for the common good.

Before working at the Center, Gonzalez served as the Director of Organizing at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights where he developed the Coalition's New Americans Vote Project. Gabe has worked as a community organizer, lobbyist, and electoral strategist for over 15 years, locally, state-wide, and nationally on such diverse issues as immigration, housing, and education policy. Gonzalez is a graduate of Drew University and lives in Chicago, IL.