Name: Gabriella Shirtcliff

Title: Student

Organization: Bend La Pine Schools

Stakeholder Group: Youth

Gabriella is a sophomore at Summit High School. She is the Community Health Advocate for the Deschutes County Health Services Prevention Team and leads Teen Community Health Advocates, the youth committee of the Shared Future Coalition. Gabriella is passionate about ending and raising awareness towards drug use and abuse, especially amongst her peers. In 2018, Gabriella was nominated for Bend’s Young Woman of the Year for her work with Pacific Crest Middle School and World Muse. In her free time, she participates in speech and debate, softball, coding classes and competitions, and Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation competition. With two younger brothers, one of them with special needs, she prides herself on her ability to catch any V-Tech toy being thrown at any velocity. Gabriella is super excited to have a chance to have a hand in the vital work of Shared Future Coalition.