The Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero—is pastor of The Gathering, a Latino-led multi-ethnic non-denominational fellowship in Orlando, Florida. Salguero is also the president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NALEC), a national coalition of several thousand evangelical congregations in the United States. He was the former Director of the Hispanic Leadership Program (HLP), and the Institute for Faith and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written extensively on Latino evangelicalism, immigration, racism, and multicultural congregations. Salguero has been named as one of the nation’s most prominent Latino evangelical leaders by the New York Times, Huffington Post, the New York Observer, the Center for American Progress, El Diario, CNN Español, NBC Universal, Univisión, and Jorge Ramos’s Al Punto. In addition, his leadership on issues of young male education and criminal justice reform has been featured by the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Rev. Salguero has served on the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council, the Department of Homeland Security's Faith-based Security Advisory Council, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), and the National Advisory Council of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance. He is also on the board of La Asociación Evangélica Latina (AEL) the coalition of Latin American evangelicals which is the representative body for all evangelical associations in Latin America.
Salguero holds a BA in Spanish and History from Rutgers University, an M.Div (magna cum laude) from New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate in Ministry from Southeastern University. He also holds numerous honorary doctorates including a Doctorate in Divinity from Eastern Nazarene College and a Doctorate in Humane Letters from Montreat College.
Dr. Salguero lives together with his wife, the Rev. Dr. Jeanette Salguero and their two sons in Orlando, Florida.
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