ABOUT GABACCIA
Gabaccia Moreno is a first-generation Mexican-American multi-disciplinary creator, consultant, and passionate outdoor advocate #ExploringResponsibly wherever life takes her. She holds a B.A. in Theater and Anthropology from SUNY College at Buffalo and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. Having grown up in Veracruz, Mexico to a family of hunters and ranchers gave her an appreciation for the land and its wildlife at an early age, one that prevails today. Her works, whether artistic, creative, or entrepreneurial, have always intersected with the social and environmental issues that surround her.
Photograph by Roberto Flores
She currently serves as National Monuments Fellow (via The Wyss Foundation) atNuestra Tierra Conservation Project, where she wakes up daily to ensure historically deliberately excluded communities have access to the process of protecting our lands and waters. She’s also the Executive Director of The Outdoorist Oath, an organization creating educational tools and models to help and encourage people to become allies for planet, inclusion, and adventure. Gabaccia also acts as Director of Social Responsibility on the board of Hiking My Feelings. Other recent credits include the Salomon Squad, being a UST Gear storyteller, contributions to Backpacker Magazine, hosting her own Live conversation series named Exploring Responsibly and Explorando Responsablemente on Instagram, and being the 2021 resident host for the She Explores Podcast. In her little free time, you’ll find her writing, advising businesses and nonprofits, or adventuring outside, probably taking photos, fishing, backpacking, hiking, or further conspiring to make the outdoors more welcoming for all.
COMMUNITY
Volunteer • Old School House Lecture Series
Member • DEI Council
Host • #DesertLive
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION
Joshua Tree National Park Association is a private, non-profit Cooperating Association working in partnership with Joshua Tree National Park to help in its achievement of programming goals in education, interpretation, scientific and historic research and activities.
Director of Social Responsibility
HIKING MY FEELINGS
Hiking My Feelings is on a mission to get folks off the couch and onto the trail. Our work explores how trauma manifests in our minds and bodies, and how the outdoors can help us heal. As an organization, we strive to improve community health by creating opportunities for folks to experience the healing power of nature. We focus on three issues impacting community health in the United States - supporting survivors of sexual violence, Type 2 Diabetes prevention + management, and exploring the mind-body connection. We work toward this mission via community education, events, and advocacy.
Digital Operations Manager
PLATFORM MAGAZINE
A publication committed to elevating BIPOC voices in the media by highlighting the environmental and social injustices we face every day, celebrating the work of BIPOC individuals and communities in the environmental movement, and providing community-driven, radical solutions to environmental and social injustices.
As we begin our work here at Platform, we draw on power and knowledge from our ancestors, predecessors, and peers in order to center the experiences of BIPOC folks in the environment.