Gladys serves as SA2020’s Director of Community Impact. She works with a diverse network of multi-sector partners to identify opportunity and innovation within and across systems. By building collective impact and critical consciousness, she is committed to helping grow the community’s capacity and network of informed and engaged community members through learning resources, destinations, and programs that bridge and sustain relationships across industries. Growing up a first-generation college graduate, it is Gladys’ belief that all students deserve to learn, thrive, and grow. Gladys previously served as the Executive Director for Leadership SAISD where she inspired civically minded individuals to become advocates and leaders in the San Antonio education community. Through her previous work—including facilitating and leading a collective of 150 LSAISD Class Members through an analysis of the educational system and its progress as part of San Antonio’s shared Community Vision, supporting the LSAISD Alumni Network of 300+ graduates, coaching 200+ educators during her years at The DoSeum, and teaching in classrooms through Teach For America-San Antonio,—Gladys has witnessed the incredible power that all community members have. Gladys holds a Masters in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from The University of Texas at San Antonio and a Masters in Business Administration from St. Mary’s University.
In 2010, nearly 6,000 people came together to envision a stronger San Antonio where students are provided a quality education no matter where they live and San Antonians are deeply engaged in selfless service to the community. Soon after, in
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020