Jennifer Aguirre, Houston, TX, received her Masters in Urban Education at The Johns Hopkins University and is a Teach For America alum. Currently, Jennifer is an American Dream Fellow with the Cisneros Center for New Americans in Northwest Arkansas working around immigrant integration. Being the first in her family to attend college, she decided to join Teach for America after graduation and spent three years in the classroom teaching Spanish at an all-boys charter school in West Baltimore. During her time in Baltimore, Jennifer lead the Foreign Language department at her school and organized the school’s first abroad trip to Spain. Seeing the lack of opportunities many of her students faced, she coordinated a team and raised over $20,000 to travel with her students to Madrid and Barcelona. She was also chosen as a Leadership for Educational Equity fellow to work as a community organizer with The Intersection, a non-profit that teaches students to become advocates in their community. Through her organizing experience, she campaigned for the Dream Act in Maryland, helped register over 180 voters, and organized a campaign around gun violence and youth employment in Baltimore. Jennifer served on the founding committee of the Young Nonprofits Professionals Network- Baltimore as the Partnerships and Resource Development chair. Jennifer received her B.A. in Psychology and minor in International Business from The University of Texas at Austin. She is passionate about immigration and education reform and working with organizations to bring more diverse leaders in to leadership positions.