Artist & Community Organizer
Gabino is an artist and community organizer with the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement, a grassroots organization that mobilizes to keep immigrant families safe from detention and deportation and to fight for justice for the undocumented community in Yonkers. He recently started Grupo Multicultural y Social to teach and promote the culture of his community. This multicultural social group hosted a Day of the Dead event in Yonkers that was attended by hundreds.
Gabino’s start as an organizer in 1994 by fighting with a group of fellow textile factory workers to be paid the wages they were owed. In 2014, he started an organization called Somos Los Otros NY, along with friends and family members. This group formed after the disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico whose own Government killed and disappeared them. They have protested and have brought attention to the problems of corruption in Mexico. Gabino uses his artistic abilities to paint banners and masks that are used in the protests.
Gabino is an irrigation technician for a lawn sprinkler company. Everything he has learned he has acquired through his own efforts and his desire to learn.