Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly (she/her/elle) is an educator and scholar-practitioner. Her work focuses on bridging social change theories and practices to support leaders and communities to engage with the complex issues of our times and create more compelling futures.
Gabrielle is Associate Professor of Community Development at Acadia University and a Lead Strategist at The Outside, a global consultancy activating large-scale equitable change. She is Consulting Editor with World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research.
Born in London, England and raised in the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Calgary, Alberta), Gabrielle spends most of her time between Halifax (K’jipuktuk) and the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. She's British to the bone, Irish at heart, Albertan to the soles of her (cowgirl) boots, a settler committed to the path of truth and reconciliation in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), and an aspiring global citizen.
Recent work includes:
Co-editor of The Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures (2023)
An article in Business Coaching Magazine on Catalyzing Relational Creativity for Transformative Leadership (2022)
A (very) short piece on “Creating Space for Emergent Imagination” in IMAGINE Magazine (2022)
An essay on “Engaging Creative Tensions in Activist and Social Movement Spaces” in Creative Activism: Research, Pedagogy and Practice (2022)
