Gabriel Brodbar
Founder & President, Catskill Carriage
Founder & Former Executive Director,
NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship (now the NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program)
Gabriel Brodbar is the Founder and President of Catskill Carriage, the first and only regularly scheduled and bespoke luxury transportation provider supporting the economic development and environmental health of New York State's Catskill Region.
Prior to starting his company, Gabriel spent 13 years as the founder and Executive Director of the NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University, later renamed the NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program. As the first cross-university initiative of its kind, the program worked with students faculty and interested parties from NYU and around the world interested in realizing pattern breaking change of social importance in sustainable and scalable ways. The program created and brought significant social entrepreneurial resources to the field, including the “Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century” Speaker Series, several social venture business plan competitions, new undergraduate and graduate classes in social entrepreneurship.
Prior to joining NYU, Gabriel served as the founder and Director of Dartington-i New York, a national and international consulting firm providing a wide range of research and practice tools to city and state child welfare and social service systems, with special expertise in performance contracting systems and supportive housing development. He is the former founding Director of the Office of Housing Policy and Development at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, where he developed and implemented a data-based method of policy analysis that led to a fundamental change in New York City’s housing policy for children, families and young adults involved in the child welfare system. Prior to that, Gabriel developed and operated award-winning, drop-out prevention and college preparatory programs for at-risk high school students in Houston and New York City including Upward Bound, AmeriCorps, and Liberty Partnership Programs.
Gabriel is a founding member of the Child Welfare League of America’s National Homelessness Advisory Panel, a New Fashion Initiative Advisory Board Member, a Teach For America alumnus (‘91), holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the CUNY Hunter College School of Social Work and a Masters in Business Administration from the Zicklin School of Business at CUNY Baruch College. His published work on the intersections of foster care and homelessness, community-based needs assessment tools and social entrepreneurship can be found in Child Welfare, The Social Service Review, and Beyond Profit. Gabriel also served as an adjunct professor in Social Entrepreneurship at NYU.