Gabrielle Colangelo Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Editorial Assistant, Ballantine Bantam Dell

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Coordinated Freedom Reads's Freedom Ambassadors Initiative and the Inside Literary Prize, planning literary events in prisons across America.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Assisted Dr. Karin Roffman, Associate Director of Public Humanities, with archival research in support of fall 2023 course “Poets and Their Papers.” Research focused on women of the New York School of Poetry.

New Haven County, Connecticut, United States

Co-organizer and Editor of “The Creative Writing Workshop,” a correspondence-based program for incarcerated students. Contributing Authors include: Franny Choi, Hanif Abdurraquib, Morgan Jerkins, Briallen Hopper, Chen Chen, Alexander Chee.Beginning August 2021, organized and led weekly in-person creative writing workshops with YPEI students. Beginning summer 2022, led multiple weekly in-person writing and research seminars to support coursework.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Pilots collaborations between YPEI and YUL in an effort to make YUL resources accessible to incarcerated YPEI students. Created and manages the “Research Request Network,” which allows YPEI students to complete remote research by correspondence. For this role, selected as one of ten undergraduate recipients of the Y-Work Award, recognized for exemplary on-campus work. Yale College Dean Marvin Chun wrote, “Gabrielle’s contributions to the Yale Library and the Yale Prison Education Initiative have been extraordinary.”

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Continues work with YPEI through Yale's prestigious President’s Public Service Fellowship, which was established in 1994 to provide expanded opportunities for Yale students to work on behalf of economic development, human development, and neighborhood revitalization with public sector and nonprofit organizations in the City of New Haven.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Selected as the only Yale College senior to curate an exhibit in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. The exhibit (We Are Everywhere: Lesbian Objects in the Archive) draws objects from various Yale archival collections and is on view at Sterling Library until September 2022. An online version of the exhibition is available below, as is a recording of my lecture given via the Beinecke Library's Mondays at Beinecke program.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Created web content for YCAL’s Creativity in Isolation project, available at: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/taxonomy/term/135. Researched and wrote about Beinecke collections to promote engagement with the Digital Library during physical library closure. Student Teacher for Pathways to Arts and Humanities course on poetry in Beinecke Collections for New Haven high schoolers.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

At the Yale College Writing Center. Hand-picked by English professors to help 100+ undergraduates per year in 1-on-1 academic writing conferences. Trained to work with ELL students to assist with conventions of American academic analysis and support their transition into Yale and writing growth over the course of their first year via weekly meetings. Course Writing Fellow for HIST 306: Empires of East Asia.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Assisted historian Dr. Debby Applegate in fact-checking and sourcing primary materials for the final draft of her biography of Polly Adler. Worked independently with a wide variety of digital archives under a tight deadline. Created extensive bibliography. Formatted and checked 1700+ footnotes.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Revitalized YPEI’s Transcription Network, leading a team of 60+ volunteers to transcribe and return handwritten work and audio-visual academic material to incarcerated students who had no internet or computer access, allowing YPEI to offer coursework remotely during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Provided front-of-house and phone service to customers, facilitated transactions and provided content warnings to audiences.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Designed and taught curricula for three classes: Playwriting, Poetry, and Comedy. Provided individual feedback to 45 6-9th grade students to facilitate academic and personal growth. Mediated student conflicts to produce a healthy school environment. Planned and budgeted field trips and extracurriculars to connect students with free Yale and New Haven resources.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Attended Directed Studies Literature lectures and seminars and took notes for students needing accommodations.Synthesized, organized, and interpreted course material and submitted for distribution in a timely fashion.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters With Distinction

Creative Writing Concentrator (Poetry) Yale in London alumnus (Spring 2019)

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies

Named Bell Scholar for achievement of highest Distinction mark on the MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies 2022-23

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Class President, Debate Captain, World Individual Debate and Public Speaking Competition Participant, National.