Gabrielle Hull is a trauma-informed advocate, non-profit leader, and resource navigator whose work is deeply rooted in both lived experience and systems-level change. As a former foster youth, Gabrielle survived profound childhood abuse after being groomed, manipulated, and exploited by an adult who used drugs as a means of control- eventually leading to a crack addiction at age 12. Although her abuser was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 100 years in prison, the abuse did not end with his incarceration.

Years later, Gabrielle encountered another form of victimization within the justice system. Through the constitutional right of self-representation, her abuser was able to continue exerting