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Jesús Aguirre, CPRE

Chair of the Board of Directors | NRPA

Jesús Aguirre is the Chair of the NRPA Board of Directors. Most recently, he was the chief executive officer of Waterloo Greenway in Austin, Texas. Previously he served as superintendent of the Department of Parks and Recreation for almost six years in Seattle. Aguirre has more than 20 years of public service leadership experience in several major metropolitan jurisdictions, including Los Angeles; New York City; Phoenix; Washington, D.C.; and Seattle.

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Aguirre received a Master of Business Administration from Arizona State University. Prior to his work in Austin and in Seattle, he served as director of the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation, where he oversaw more than $115 million in facility design, construction and redevelopment efforts in the nation’s capital. In addition, Aguirre has also worked in the education sector, starting off as a middle school science teacher, and ultimately serving as the state superintendent of education for the District of Columbia. Aguirre and his wife co-founded and ran a nonprofit, kindergarten through eighth grade, dual-language charter school in Phoenix for 10 years. He serves on the board of the National Recreation and Park Association as the board chair and is a member of the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration.

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