Gabrielle Wassilak

Gabbi was born in Bethesda, Maryland but grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She graduated summa cum laude from Hope College with her BSW and a minor in Peace and Justice Studies. During her time at Hope, she participated in several summer research projects, a May-term to Nyamata, Rwanda, an academic semester in Aberdeen, Scotland, and an ASIANetwork fellowship to Zhengzhou, China. Through her summer research and during her time in China, she realized her passion for global social work, program development, and program evaluation. While working with several non-governmental organizations serving parents of children with disabilities, she felt herself gravitating toward mezzo and macro oriented tasks. Additionally, Gabbi wishes to obtain her MSW concentrating on community organization in order to work with a variety of communities on program development as it pertains to conflict resolution and capacity building. Through GASP, she is excited to engage with sustainable community development projects.