New Executive Director

Gabriela Mossi was born in DC and grew up Honduras.

If you’re out and about Uptown DC, wandering in one of the local businesses, walking outside, or enjoying the weekend farmers market you might see UCi’s new executive director Gabriela Mossi. You’ll be seeing a lot of this Washingtonian.

Gabriela’s professional background includes both local and international economic development and neighborhood revitalization work with nonprofits, local governments, multilateral organizations, and university think tanks. She has focused on cooperative private, governmental, and not for profit projects; outreach to immigrant communities; and assistance to minority-owned small businesses.

Before focusing on neighborhood work in the DC area, she worked on development programs at the Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame, the University of Maryland, The World Bank, and UnidosUS. She started her local engagement with Adams Morgan Main Streets, one of the first DC Main Street programs. More recently she ran a workforce preparation school for adult immigrants and conducted independent consulting.

Ms. Mossi’s community work includes serving as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Adams Morgan and sitting on the boards of DC organizations focusing on urban poverty alleviation, entrepreneurship, housing, and voter participation.

She’s a proud Hoya. After Georgetown she completed graduate studies in international development and cooperation at the Institute of Social Studies -The Hague and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Recently, Gabriela took social distancing seriously before she started working at UMS. Gabriela had to telework in another time zone and a couple latitudes south. We’re happy she took social distancing seriously but we have her here with us now. Don’t forget to ask Gabriela about her pet goose.