Gabriel Solís

Gabriel Daniel Solís (he/him) is a LA-based community memory worker that has consulted on a wide range of archives and public memory projects. He has consulted with the Ford Foundation’s Reclaiming the Border Narrative initiative, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Oral History Project, the UCLA Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration project, and Separated: Stories of Injustice and Solidarity, a National Endowment for the Humanities supported project documenting the lived experiences of parents separated from their children at the U.S./Mexico border. Gabriel currently serves on Shift Collective’s Historypin Research Faculty and the Advisory Board for the Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History (C-CAP TEACH) project. In 2022, Gabriel wrote (with WITNESS) “Centering Agency, Community, and Care in Archives Grantmaking.”  

Gabriel is the Executive Director of the Texas After Violence Project, a public archive that fosters deeper understanding of the impacts of state violence on communities. Prior to returning to TAVP in 2016, Gabriel worked as a capital post-conviction investigator for the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs, criminal justice research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and project coordinator of the Guantánamo Bay Oral History Project at the Columbia Center for Oral History Research. Gabriel is the recipient of the 2018 Pushcart Prize for nonfiction. His writings have appeared in Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, Oxford American, Scalawag, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics, and Power, and Kula: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. Gabriel is the 2023 University of California Regents Fellow in Information Studies.