About Paul “Esa” Galloway
Esa has led several civil rights, First Amendment, and faith-based organizations including The American Muslim Advisory Council, The American Center for Outreach, The Islamic Society of Greater Houston, and The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Houston Chapter. Also, Paul’s work at Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston was honored with a Jefferson Awards Certificate of Excellence for Public Service.
Esa is a product of the “Military Brat” experience of the 1990’s growing up on various US Army bases in Germany. During this time Paul visited Kenya, Hungary and Poland on missionary trips; he also visited East Germany with the Boy Scouts of America, and traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Esa has completed the Hajj pilgrimage and has participated in an interfaith pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Society for Biblical Studies. Paul’s education includes a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Houston, and a Master’s Degree in Civic Leadership from Lipscomb University. He is also a graduate of the FBI-Houston Citizens’ Academy, Class of 2012.
Esa is a proud husband and father of four, he has an interfaith and multiracial family and is of Scotch-Irish and Mexican descent. He is a native Texan, who now lives in Colorado.
NOTE: You might know him as Esa, Isa or Iesa, each is pronounced “eye-e-sa,” and is Arabic for Jesus. Paul adopted that name when he first converted to Islam and later he temporarily stopped using it to honor his mother’s feelings.