ABOUT GABACCIA
Gabaccia Moreno is a first-generation multimedia storyteller, consultant, and passionate outdoor advocate. Growing up, visiting the lush Mayan forest gave her an appreciation for the land and its wildlife at an early age. Today, she serves as Social Media Manager for Outward Bound USA in support of increasing outdoor education access for youth. She’s also a member of the board of directors of The Outdoorist Oath, an organization that creates educational tools and equips people to take action for planet, inclusion, and adventure, where she formerly served as Executive Director. She is also an ambassador for Leave No Trace, helping people steward the outdoor spaces we share.
Gabaccia is an avid outdoor access advocate and is a founding member of the Outdoor Opportunity Coalition, creating policy to ensure investments in outdoor access for youth. She previously served as National Monuments Fellow for Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project, participating in conservation campaigns to make the outdoors more equitable while protecting our shared ecosystems. Media credits include guest hosting/producing at She Explores and Dirtbag Diaries podcasts, and contributions to Backpacker.com. In her free time, you’ll find her outside, probably skiing, taking photos, fishing, hunting, hiking, or indoors playing video games, writing, or painting with watercolors.
COMMUNITY
Volunteer • Old School House Lecture Series
Member • Community 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.