Gabe (he/him) earned his law degree at the University of Washington School of Law where he was a Gregoire Fellow and joined Nielsen Koch & Grannis in 2025. Before joining the firm, he clerked for three years at the Washington Supreme Court, first for Chief Justice Steven González and then for the Honorable Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud. In law school he served as a senior editor for the Washington Journal of International Law and externed for Justice Gordon McCloud and the Honorable Judge Christopher Alston on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. He also participated in UW Law’s Tribal Public Defense Clinic and spent his law school summers clerking for the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, the Starbucks Corporation, and the Complex Litigation Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office.

Originally from California, Gabe spent his pre-law school years in the Bay Area. He served as an AmeriCorps Fellow at the Oakland Public Education Fund, a Capital Fellow in the California State Legislature, and as a Policy Advocate for Accion-Opportunity Fund. He has worked on state and federal legislation addressing post-incarceration recidivism, discrimination in the financial system, and consumer and small business financial protection. He graduated from Pitzer College in 2014 with a bachelor’s in political studies and a minor in sociology.