Montserrat Garibay

Affiliation

Former Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director

Biography

Montserrat Garibay is the Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director for the Office of English Language Acquisition at the U.S. Department of Education. She was formerly Senior Advisor for Labor Relations at the Office of the Secretary. Garibay was a bilingual pre-kindergarten teacher for eight years and National Board-Certified Teacher in Austin, Texas. She came to the U.S. from Mexico City as an undocumented immigrant and became a citizen 20 years later. She graduated from the University of Texas-Austin with a Master of Education.