Joe Carreón is a proud product of northwest Dallas where he attended Dallas ISD schools David G. Burnet, Julian T. Saldivar, and E.H. Cary. 

Through the hard work of his parents and community, he became the first in his family to graduate from high school and later college.  He earned his high school diploma from Dallas Jesuit and received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Spanish from Southern Methodist University (SMU). Following college, Joe earned a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a law degree from the SMU Dedman School of Law.  

Experiencing first-hand how education can empower a family, Joe has spent the last decade working to ensure that the opportunities he was allotted were accessible to all children.  During college, Joe worked as a teacher’s assistant at David G. Burnet elementary school, the school where he attended kindergarten. After college, Joe joined AmeriCorps and the Food on the Move program working to ensure that kids in his community had access to nutritious meals during the summer. Following graduate school, he served President Barack Obama’s education policy team assisting the President’s goal of universal preschool.  And most recently, Joe returned to SMU to help coordinate programs aimed at increasing the graduation rate of first-generation college students. 

Today, Joe is a practicing attorney and an active member of his community. A longtime DISD volunteer, Joe has been a strong supporter of his neighborhood’s parent-teacher organizations.   He has participated on numerous Dallas ISD advisory boards and was a founding member of the Student Voices Leadership program at Thomas Jefferson High School. 

Joe currently serves as President of the Bachman-Northwest Highway Community Association, where he works with neighbors and city leadership to move the vision of his community forward.  As Trustee, Joe is committed to doing the same and is running to build a culture of communication and feedback. Through his work in higher education, Joe knows what our students need to succeed after high school.  He will work to implement and defend programs which prepare our kids for college and a career. As a life-long resident of District 8, he understands the challenges and obstacles our students face in their neighborhoods and will work to ensure every school is equipped with the proper counseling staff, professional training, and social service partnerships required to get our students the support they need.

Joe’s established community ties, breadth of experience and keen knowledge of our district make him the best candidate to build on the success of our public schools and advance a school district worthy of our children’s potential.

Reach out to Joe at (469) 544-6764.