Gabriella's personal research and teaching focuses on international development, gender and women's rights in Lebanon and the greater Middle East. She is a project manager and researcher at the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW), located in Beirut, Lebanon, and a PhD student at the State University of New York at Buffalo,
Before IWSAW, Gabriella worked as a Contracts & Grants specialist at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).