For Tarrant County
Precinct 4 Commissioner
About Nydia
Fort Worth taught me that community is a web of responsibility and, in that web, your well-being is tied to mine. I stand on what others built for me.
Now it’s my turn to strengthen that web for others.
Rooted in Community
I'm the youngest of four children in a first-generation Mexican-American family, and I'm a proud product of Fort Worth public schools: Worth Heights Elementary, Morningside Middle School, and North Side High School. My education didn't just happen in classrooms. It happened at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, where I watched neighbors show up for each other. It happened through Hispanic Youth Promoting Excellence, where I saw myself reflected in mentors who believed in my potential. It happened at the YMCA's Youth Action Committee 76106 and Camp CommUNITY where I learned that difference doesn’t mean deficit and that leadership means weaving people together, not driving them apart.
I was valedictorian of my high school class and named the City of Fort Worth's Young Woman Volunteer of the Year. Those honors weren't about individual achievement; they were about what a community can build when it invests in its young people. Learning and service have always been inseparable for me.
Building Systems That Work for People
That foundation carried me to Stanford, where I studied mechanical engineering and stayed deeply connected to service, leading community programs and focusing my senior design project on rehabilitative technology. After earning my MBA from the University of Michigan, I dedicated my career to local economic vitality by supporting small businesses.
Through the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and Black Ambition programs, I helped entrepreneurs access the resources they needed to grow. With MBAs Across America, I drove 4,500 miles in six weeks, listening to business owners and helping them tackle obstacles to growth. In Detroit, I taught business planning in English and Spanish and helped neighborhood entrepreneurs bring brick-and-mortar dreams to life. Those experiences taught me that meaningful solutions start with listening, not assuming.
As VP of Customer Experience for a tech startup, I turned customer frustrations into system improvements, advocating for changes that made products work better. But I kept returning to a deeper truth: real, lasting change happens when communities have the capacity and authority to define their own problems and design their own solutions.
Coming Home
The pandemic brought me back to Fort Worth, but I stayed because I saw the county growing rapidly and an urgent need for leaders who solve problems by listening, showing up, and strengthening our connections rather than fraying them. I’ve spent my life learning to solve both technical and human challenges, and the strongest solutions always come from working alongside people, not above them.
Since returning, I’ve focused on building community. I’ve continued mentoring young people. I founded The Energy Takeback, a leadership coaching and organizational development practice rooted in engineering principles and the science of human flourishing. And I’ve facilitated the 817 Gather, bringing people together across neighborhoods and backgrounds to build a more inclusive Tarrant County.
