Dr. Gabriela Cardona Rivera is originally from yauco, Puerto Rico. She majored in Biological Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico where she developed research projects on different arthropods in Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica. She later pursued her PhD in Entomology where she developed research projects on macroinvertebrates during flood pulses in the Ogeechee River in Georgia, and on arthopods in agriculture-adjacent wetlands in north Georgia. She now works as a Prevention Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where she mainly takes part in Ecological Risk Screening Summaries and in Biological Evaluations in adherance to the Endangered Species Act, Section 7 (interagency cooperations). In her spare time she makes candles, and re-news furniture, and gives/takes latin dancing classes.