Gabriela is a Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, where she focuses on regulatory development and enforcement of federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of conscience or religion in HHS funded programs. Gabriela has been in this role since shortly after her graduation from Notre Dame Law School in 2017 and after a short fellowship with the Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics. Coming from a family of many medical professionals, Gabriela is especially interested in medical ethics, access to health care, and physician and practitioner rights to conscience.

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Gabriela completed her bachelor's in History at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where she was also an avid voice student, competing regularly in vocal competitions around the state. She is also a mother to a toddler and new baby and seven little ones in heaven who inspire her to be a passionate advocate for miscarriage awareness and education. She is barred in Maryland, and she and her husband live with their two children in Burke, Virginia.