Giving Forward

Brian Estrada '02

From my first few weeks on campus, TCU captured my imagination.  My years at the university gave me the opportunity to grow in both scholarship and leadership under the direction of remarkable faculty and dedicated staff.  I found my voice as a leader and communicator, and frequently lost it while cheering on the Horned Frogs at athletic events.  Through my professional career I have found myself on the campuses of other exceptional private universities, but my appreciation of the access I had to faculty and the most senior university administrators as a TCU student has only grown.

For me, joining the Junior Clark Society was an easy decision.  I give out of recognition and awareness that the TCU I encountered as a freshman was built thanks to generations of generous alumni, administrators, faculty, and friends.  During my four years at TCU from 1998-2002, the continued generosity of the TCU family helped build the residence halls where I lived and renovate the classrooms where I learned.  In the years since my graduation, this momentum has continued at a breathtaking pace, resulting in the transformed, modern campus TCU students enjoy today.  TCU’s campus now features living and learning facilities that are unparalleled anywhere in American higher education.

I have always been inspired by TCU’s history and how it has grown from a fledgling frontier college into a major, world-class university.  This happened thanks to the generosity of those who gave of both time and treasure, so that students like me whose names they would never know and whose faces they would never see would be educated here.  While my financial contributions are modest by comparison, it is a privilege to pay their great gift forward so future Horned Frogs can have their own transformative TCU experience.  I encourage you to do the same!

Brian Estrada
Class of 2002

Brian graduated from TCU with a degree in Political Science and is currently working as the senior assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.