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.