While some people daydream about becoming writers, directors, filmmakers, fashion stars, or CEOs of their own companies, Gabrielle aspires to achieve all of the above and then some. "I have a plethora of career goals. I concentrated in screenwriting because I felt like at the heart of all my goals is to be a storyteller," she said. "I would love to be a showrunner, love to start my own production company, create a chain of theme parks, start a fashion brand. The whole gamut, you know? Magazine, buy an island, and start my own civilization. Those are just some smaller goals that I have short term."
"It was so funny to see that this was something that I was doing from a very early age. I was just talking to this invisible imagined audience."
To keep track of all her stories, Gabrielle carries a journal with her everywhere she goes to jot down ideas and write poetry and songs. "I literally have a whole shelf full of journals, and I've been journaling since — well, as long as I can remember. It's really insane for me to go back to the screenplays that I was writing in my journal before I even knew that they were screenplays. It's inspiring and it also shows me that I'm on the right path because this is something that I was doing before I even really knew that it was a career path."
While creating her vlog-style YouTube series "Bell Parks," Gabrielle came across her journals from first or second grade, in which she was writing in the voice of a blogger speaking to a full-fledged audience. "It was so funny to see that this was something that I was doing from a very early age," she said. "I was just talking to this invisible imagined audience, very similar to the way that I spoke to them in my series."
In addition to her YouTube screenplay, some of Gabrielle's other proudest achievements include directing the short Amazon Fire TV documentary Mr. Ewing, the story of a 99-year-old English teacher and World War II veteran, and creating the #Vote4theFuture campaign video — which featured Oprah Winfrey, Mahershala Ali, Tessa Thompson, and more — with Amanda ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
