Ingrid with her two sons, who are current GUSD students.
Ingrid in Sacramento, advocating for public education.
About Ingrid
Ingrid Gunnell was born and raised in Glendale. A graduate of Keppel, Toll, and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, she returned to Glendale after college to begin a career in LAUSD as an elementary school teacher. She now works as a teacher advisor within LAUSD.
She is a parent to two sons currently in high school in GUSD. She has seen the amazing work GUSD educators and administrators do each day and regularly attends board meetings to advocate for public education and public educators.
Ingrid is long-time advocate for inclusive teaching practices and greater representation of historically under-represented communities. As part of the coalition of Black in Glendale, she helped GUSD unanimously pass a resolution supporting the Black Lives Matter in Schools curriculum in 2020, as well as the Safe Zone Resolution in 2017 to ensure our immigrant families and students remained safe on campus. For much of the past decade, she has advocated at the local, state, and national levels for Armenian Genocide Education to be taught in public schools.
Finally, as an educator herself, Ingrid understands firsthand the importance of working in good faith with organized labor in public school districts. Our Glendale Unified community is only as strong as our relationship with our teachers, principals, nurses, librarians, custodians, assistants, aides, and other staff who work in our schools each and every day.
Advocacy and Experience
Ingrid with 3 former GTA Presidents who have endorsed her. Sandra Fink, Ingrid, Taline Arsenian , Phyllis Miller
Walking precincts with my son in 2015
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond, with Ingrid’s sons, Gianni and Frankie, pre-pandemic.
Giving public comment at a GUSD Board meeting
Ingrid, with colleague Erika Jones, and Congressman Schiff, discussing Public Education, September 2016, Washington DC.
At Boy Scouts!
Collecting signatures to increase revenues for our schools and communities, 2019.
Ingrid with AFL-CIO President, Liz Shuler, March 2022.
Ingrid with then Congressman, now US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, discussing Public Education in Washington DC, September, 2014.
Speaking in Boston in 2015 for increased public education funding at the NEA RA
With Civil Rights icon Dolores Huerta in 2019
Ingrid, marching with son Frankie, in the East LA Mexican Independence Day Parade, 2015.
Ingrid, advocating for increased funding, US Capitol, Washington DC, 2017.
Ingrid, with colleagues, at the Advancement Project Reception, 2015.
Ingrid at the Armenian Genocide Recognition Rally, April 24, 2016.
Ingrid, with UTLA colleagues and United States Vice-President, Kamala Harris, pre-pandemic.
Ingrid's sons with Gavin Newsom at a 2018 event