A drama writer who spent a decade as a field epidemiologist chasing outbreaks across the globe — and now brings that science and sleuthing to character-driven procedurals built around morally ambiguous women.
Gisselle grew up in a garment factory in Hialeah, among Miami's Cuban exile community. Her family's history as political refugees shaped an early pull toward politics and human rights. She lost most of her hearing to a childhood vaccine, and growing up deaf in a hearing world sharpened the observational skills that have carried her through an unusual run of careers — ballerina, collegiate judo competitor, and eventually scientist.
As a field epidemiologist, she spent a decade in biodefense, chasing disease outbreaks across the globe before turning to writing. She draws on the conflicts she wrestled with in that work, bringing real sleuthing instincts to procedurals while writing character-driven drama. She's been staffed on ABC's Quantico and NBC's New Amsterdam, wrote for Moonbug's MY GO 2.0, and developed dramas with Telemundo.
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A team of epidemiologists takes on a powerful cabal inside the government after uncovering a series of illegal human-research programs ordered by the military.
A detective investigating a macabre global underworld — where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold — stumbles onto a conspiracy that forces her to reexamine her own past.
A maverick scientist on the verge of a major discovery makes a terrible decision to protect her study — and the fallout threatens to destroy everything she's worked for.