Gina built the world’s largest network of social innovation labs at the United Nations and currently teaches at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

The innovation lab network that she built was the United Nation's largest investment in sustainability innovation (115 countries). Her work is taught as a Harvard Business School Case Study (Fall 2022), received the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award, the 2023 SXSW Innovation Award, Apolitical's Public Service Team of the Year (evidence-based policy-making) in 2019, was covered in the MIT Sloan Review (Summer 2020) and depicted in For Tomorrow, an award-winning documentary on grassroots innovation available on Amazon Prime.

A ride or die optimist, she has 20+ years of experience in the global sustainable development sector working on civic participation, human rights, entrepreneurship, reducing inequalities, climate action, food systems, informal economies and sustainable development across the board.

She writes, speaks and represents the United Nations on sustainability innovations regularly, including through a new course she designed for the Masters in Design Engineering program at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Graduate School of Design (Integrative Frameworks: Innovation in Global Problem Solving).