Professionally

Gabrielle graduated from the University of Connecticut where she earned a degree in Communications and minored in Business Fundamentals. She was an active member of the professional business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi. Before starting at Francis Financial, Gabrielle gained experience as an intern for Feeding Children Everywhere during her senior year of college and she also spent a summer working for the city of New York at their Office of Emergency Management in Brooklyn. Gabrielle currently serves as a NextGen Board co-chair and a member of the Advisory Council for FamilyKind, a non-profit that helps under-served children, parents, and couples cope with separation and divorce, where she assists them in furthering their mission. Gabrielle combined her love of traveling with her passion of volunteering spending two summers abroad. She spent the summer of 2012 in London, England coaching basketball for a local school’s youth center and the next summer working on a wildlife park in the outskirts of Sydney, Australia. Gabrielle also was selected to join the UConn Empower group to travel to northern India to implement sustainable projects at an impoverished school.

Personally

Gabrielle’s competitive and energetic nature makes her a self-proclaimed dynamite on our team’s dodgeball league and at any competition she can get her hands on. With a passion for sports and adventure, she has gone snowboarding, zip-lining, surfing, and ski diving. In life and at work, Gabrielle is always ready to take on any challenge and inspires everyone to do their best with her contagious enthusiasm. When Gabrielle is not exploring the city, she escapes upstate to her family home looking over the beautiful Catskill Mountains and goes to concerts at Bethel Woods in her hometown. She is also our resident TV and movie buff and is always up to date on all things pop culture.

Purpose

My parents committed their careers to helping others and inspired me to mirror that compassion in my own career path. As a teacher, my mother raised me to understand the value of a dollar and the importance of my own financial education as a young woman. I’m so proud to play a role in empowering and educating women to achieve their own financial independence.