Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez

Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez (she/her/hers) is a Filipina American writer named to Diversity Woman Media’s Power 100 List. She is a co-author of Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023) and a co-host of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast from The Winters Group, Inc., a global diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice consulting firm. Her writing has appeared in Shape, Self, Women’s Health, and Seventeen.

As an editor at Shape, Gabrielle expanded coverage of women of color and hired the magazine’s first Black columnist. She also helped increase the hiring of writers of color by 50 percent working in talent acquisition for Static Media. A neurodiverse multihyphenate, she is a former New York City Teaching Fellow at Harvey Milk High School, where the majority of students identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and a founding teacher at the Academy for Software Engineering, a public high school that expanded access to coding education to Black, Latine, and female students across New York City.

Gabrielle earned an advanced diploma in managing workplace diversity and inclusion from New York University, a master of science in education from Hunter College, and a bachelor of arts in journalism from The Ohio State University. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, son, and two TV-loving cats. She remembers the Lenape.

 

 

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Arts & Culture
Business & Finance
Education
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Government & Politics
Health & Medicine
Lifestyle
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Parenting
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Wellness

Specialties

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice

notepad Skills

  • Articles
  • Blog posts
  • Books
  • Case studies
  • Communications strategy
  • Content marketing
  • Copywriting
  • Curriculum
  • Editing
  • Essays
  • Event production
  • Feature writing
  • Ideation
  • Infographics
  • News
  • News releases
  • Media relations
  • Op-Ed
  • Podcasts (producing)
  • Podcasts (writing)
  • Profiles
  • Project management
  • Publicity
  • Q&A
  • SEO
  • Scripts
  • Social media
  • Web copy
  • White papers

notepad Writing Credits

Shape, Self, Seventeen, Women’s Health, Weight Watchers, Parenting, Food Network, VIVmag, iVillage, Columbus Monthly, The List, Health Digest, The Inclusion Solution, Lovevery

notepad Book Credits

Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023. Co-authors: Mary-Frances Winters, Kevin A. Carter, Megan Ellinghausen, Scott Ferry, Dr. Terrence Harewood, Tami Jackson, Dr. Megan Larson, Leigh Morrison, Katelyn Peterson, Mareisha N. Reese, Thamara Subramanian, and Rochelle Younan-Montgomery.

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

Selected Work

As author, unless indicated otherwise.

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Navigating the VUCA World: Recruiting and Hiring for Racial Justice

This week on The Inclusion Solution, Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez continues our feature series on Navigating the VUCA World by examining three areas related to recruiting and hiring that can help increase diversity in the workplace despite living in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times. Between the Great Resignation and the sharp decrease in women and particularly women of color in the workforce, organizations must start applying a justice lens when it comes to finding and attracting talent, the interview process, and compensation decisions. Equity in these areas is a win for all.

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By Whose Standards? Holding Hollywood to Account for Telling Authentic Stories and Subverting Harmful Stereotypes

In this week’s edition of The Inclusion Solution, Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez continues our By Whose Standards? series by calling attention to the equitable representation, or lack thereof, in Hollywood. We have a long way to go, and the progress cannot just rest on the shoulders of a few creatives of color, like Shonda Rhimes and Tyler Perry. Allies have to step up to do their part and call for accountability in the entertainment industry. Gabrielle offers a few ways to do this while championing authentic stories and subverting harmful stereotypes.

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By Whose Standards? On Decolonizing Beauty

On this week's edition of The Inclusion Solution, Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez continues our By Whose Standards? series to explore beauty standards and decolonizing the beauty industry. She shares her experience growing up as a woman of color in the suburbs of the Midwest during the 1980s when ads of blonde-haired, blue-eyed models were a driving force in how she subconsciously defined beauty, and the impact this has on women of color. Gabrielle leaves us with a feeling of hope, though, as the demand for products that embrace natural looks rather than forcing Western ideals continues to increase, and she even shares a few beauty companies led by women of color.

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