Gabrielle (Rocha) Crowe is the Co-Chair and the Secretary of Environmental Sciences for the Gabrielino-Shoshone Nation of Southern California. She is one of the leaders of the Climate Resilient LA Coalition. She is a Cultural and Environmental Education Consultant for the Ballona Wetlands, collaborator with Anawakalmekak, the only indigenous TK-12 charter school in Los Angeles where she works as the Intergenerational Gabrielino Language Ecosystem Grant Program manager. She also helps create science curriculum and is an instructor for their IndigeNations Summer Program, is an Indigenous Land Rematriation Fellow, a member of the Tribal Marine Collaborative, a member of several MPA (Marine Protected Areas) Collaboratives in Southern California, the Co-Chair for the OCMPAC’s Racial, Indigenous Social Justice Committee, she is also a representative in several tribal advisory groups overseeing projects at the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, The Los Cerritos Wetlands, and a partnership with the Catalina Island Conservancy. Her role in the tribal council is bridging the gap between environmental and cultural education for different non-profit organizations as well as facilitating communication between her nation and various state agencies.
Gabrielle received her Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from Cal Poly Pomona and has twenty years of experience as a naturalist including work as an Ocean Educator, Outdoor Education Coordinator/Science Instructor at the Ocean Institute, Lead Naturalist at the Mary Vagle Nature Center, and as an Animal Educator at the Aquarium of the Pacific. She is passionate about getting our youth out on the land and in the ocean and creating educational and career pathways with traditional ecological knowledge at the forefront. She is a strong proponent of cultural revitalization and participates in traditional basketweaving, language revitalization, and learning more about ethnobotany. She realizes the incredible responsibility she has to continue her Grandmother Chief Ya’Anna Vera Rocha’s legacy of protecting our Earth for future generations. Her hobbies include trail running, hiking, bodyboarding, surfing, teaching art to elementary students, singing, baking, making jewelry, coaching youth sports, and taking her three children to the beach and on other outdoor adventures.