Isral D.
Biography
Isral DeBruin is the Director of Strategy and Communication at City Forward Collective. Isral joined Schools That Can Milwaukee (a predecessor of City Forward Collective) in 2013 as Manager of
Development and Communications.
Prior to that, Isral taught upper elementary students at La Causa Charter School, initially as a Teach For America corps member and later as an after-school tutor and long-term substitute. Before joining TFA, Isral was an award-winning education reporter covering suburban school districts for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's NOW
Newspapers.
Isral has a B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and an M.Ed. in Educational Policy and Leadership from Marquette University.