Gabriela Zapata-Alma, LCSW, CADC, (they/elle) is a liberation-centered bilingual, multicultural clinician, speaker, author, educator, and national subject matter expert with 20 years’ experience serving individuals and communities impacted by interpersonal and structural violence. In addition to their boutique practice, GZA INK, Gabriela currently serves as the Associate Director of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, as well as faculty at the University of Chicago, where they direct the Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor Training Program within the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. As a person with lived experience of violence and trauma, they center survivor-driven solutions, nonpathologizing approaches, and intergenerational healing in their work. A frequent keynote speaker and published author, Gabriela has developed evidence-supported toolkits, curricula, and best practice guidelines that have been used as blueprints for conferences, summits, and legislative advocacy, all while centering lived/living expertise at the intersections of substance use, mental health, and gender-based violence. Gabriela's work is driven by their values, particularly the value of interdependence and being in right relationship as a community member, partner, parent, and future ancestor. When they are not cultivating healing and equity, they can be found with their nose in a book, their fingers in the soil, roaming through forests, or singing and dancing with family.