After traveling back to her ancestral homelands in the South for graduate school, Gabrielle realized that she was not just writing about race and gender — she was writing about environmental healing and climate justice. Since then, Gabrielle (they/she) has built a niche in environmental storytelling, food, and bodily autonomy. 

Gabrielle is passionate about breaking down big, complicated ideas into manageable tasks. She uses her narrative and systems-thinking skills to ensure that the "how" is directly informed by the "why".  Gabrielle has interdisciplinary experience managing the execution of multimedia strategies from inception to completion. Common objectives of their work have included radical re-imagination of systems, weaving multigenerational perspectives,  placemaking, belonging, and healing historical harms through story. 

They have an MFA in Creative Writing. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best New Poets. 

They are currently a guest lecturer at Otis College of Art & Design on the subject of Human Ecology. Previously, they were the Managing Editor for TransLash News and Narrative, a trans storytelling platform. They were also a graduate fellow with The Oxford American Magazine, Editor in Chief of Linden Avenue Literary Journal, and Managing Editor at The Tenth Magazine, an independent Black queer media organization. Gabrielle is an avid volunteer, and had the pleasure of serving on the LA Chapter Board of the The Association of LGBTQ Journalists for 2 years. 

As a part of a personal commitment to community investment, she became certified as a 200-hour registered yoga teacher and a queer foster youth mentor.  They are based on Tongva, Kizh, and Chumash land, also known as Los Angeles.