Gabbi Wassilak, LMSW

Gabbi works closely with students and student organizations engaged in community-based initiatives in their local and global communities. Through trainings, consultations, and advising, she supports students in deepening their own learning, as well as the impact of their community engagement efforts, by centering their work on community-identified needs. Gabbi also advises The Detroit Partnership, a Ginsberg sponsored student organization that facilitates weekly service-learning opportunities in the city of Detroit. 

Gabbi joined the Ginsberg Center’s team in November of 2023. She is a licensed macro social worker who has worked in both higher education and community based non-profit settings locally and internationally. Throughout Gabbi’s career, she has worked with foster care service providers, LGBTQIA2S+ youth, folks experiencing homelessness, and college-age students. She approaches her work from a social justice, strengths perspective, and community development lens. She is passionate about empowering and mentoring students as they practice DEI informed leadership behaviors and learn how to more equitably engage with their communities. 

In her free time, Gabbi loves to create new pottery pieces, try out recipes and restaurants (she loves to cook and eat), and travel anywhere in the U.S. and abroad. She is obsessed with her cat Gus and dog Annie and will show you all the pictures you can handle of the two of them.