Gabriela Elizondo-Craig

Gabriela Elizondo-Craig (she/her/ella) has worked with i4J since Spring 2020 in roles ranging from volunteer, student, Post-Graduate Fellow, Graduate Research Assistant, and now Project Lead. Gabriela brings experience across both the Service and System impact areas to the team. Prior to re-joining the team in February 2024 as a Project Lead to focus on launching the Housing Stability Legal Advocate (HSLA) Initiative in Utah, she served as the project manager for launching the Medical Debt Legal Advocates pilot in Utah and project manager/co-PI for the Medical Debt Policy Scorecard.

Gabriela’s research interests lie at the intersection of the law and public health, born out of her interdisciplinary educational background. Gabriela is a proud soon-to-be triple Wildcat. She holds a B.S. in Public Health, Summa Cum Laude (‘18), and J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif (‘21) from the University of Arizona and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences (anticipated ‘24) at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Her primary interest is in the law’s role as a social determinant of health and the potential for improving health equity by increasing access to justice, with an emphasis on marginalized communities. Gabriela enjoys the opportunities to pair storytelling from working with qualitative data with robust data visualization from working with quantitative data, which are made possible by the mixed methods approaches applied to the design- and systems-thinking frameworks in her projects.