Gabe Ishida
Development Associate
(650) 736-2988
gishida@stanford.edu

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Gabe Ishida attended Iolani School and graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies in 1998. Upon graduation, he spent the next three years working for the Hawaii State Legislature, as a legislative aide, on various issues ranging from Native Hawaiian rights to education. His interests in education lead him to the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center, a children’s museum, as a program assistant in their education department.

In 2003, he joined Hawaii 3R’s, a non-profit organization established by Hawaii’s senior Senator Daniel K. Inouye, whose mission is to bring outside financial and human resources together to tackle the approximate $640 million repair and maintenance backlog in Hawaii’s public schools. In May 2007, Ishida completed his master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and moved to California to join his fiancé in the Bay Area.

In his personal life, taiko, the art of Japanese drumming, is his true passion. As member of the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble for over ten years, he studied traditional and contemporary forms of Japanese drumming, toured the United States and Japan, and was the director of the Taiko Center of the Pacific Youth Group.