Gabriela is passionate about working in interdisciplinary and diverse teams to tackle wicked problems, envision alternative desirable futures, and conceive solutions to effect positive change in people’s lives. To do so, she draws on her expertise in design research, strategic design and futures studies.Throughout her career, she has reinforced her vocation as a generalist, working with various research areas —from mobility and mobile banking, to safety for women and social capital, to name a few.She is currently the Head of Exploration of the Accelerator Lab at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mexico, where she is part of a network of practitioners that work to reimagine development and accelerate learnings to achieve more sustainable futures. Before joining UNDP, she worked at Laboratorio para la Ciudad – the experimental arm of the Mexico City government– where she supported innovation strategies, harnessing the capabilities of government, academia and civil society in order to solve public problems. Prior to her work in public sector, she worked for various strategic design and innovation consultancy firms.Gabriela holds a M.A. in Futures Studies from Freie Universitaet Berlin and a B.A. in Industrial Design from Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.