Gabrielle (Gabby) Fidis is one of four recipients of the GSNC 2024 Impact Award.

Gabrielle Fidis, RDT, LCAT (she/her/hers) has been involved in Girl Scouting since she was a young Daisy.

Over the years, she has participated in the Girl Scout Chorus, Camp Blue Bay summer sessions, troop camping at Blue Bay, and completed both her Bronze Award and Silver Award. In 2012 and 2013, she worked as a Unit Counselor and Assistant Unit Leader at Camp Blue Bay. As an adult Lifetime Member, Gabrielle has been involved as a Delegate for the West Hempstead/Franklin Square (WHFS) service unit, as well as most recently elected to be a National Delegate representing Girl Scouts of Nassau County in Florida. In the fall, she joined GSNC’s Strategic Planning Committee.

Gabrielle attributes what she learned about leadership, community engagement, and the importance of female role models in this world to her time as a Girl Scout. She hopes to find places in her life where she can apply these qualities, and continue to abide by the Girl Scout Law to “make the world a better place.”

Gabrielle is putting this philosophy into practice in her career as a Drama Therapist. In September 2021, she received her Master of Arts in Drama Therapy from New York University. In her program, she interned in environments providing services to people with intellectual/developmental disabilities, women/families experiencing domestic violence, and patients in inpatient psychiatry units in a hospital setting.

She is currently working as a Creative Arts Therapist at Bellevue Hospital in adult acute inpatient psychiatry on a dual-diagnosis unit for substance use disorders and psychosis.