Gloria is a producer, director, environmental campaigner, writer and advisor. She fell in love with orcas when she was four years old. Like a compass in her life, they led her to the Pacific Northwest where she began working to protect the critically endangered Southern Resident Orcas and ecosystem they belong to.

 

Her first film, Coextinction, unearths the crisis the Southern Resident Orcas are facing, tying it to ongoing colonial systems. "A shot straight to the heart," Coextinction received multiple awards, including the Rob Stewart Eco Warrior Award and People’s Choice and was nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards. Gloria has since produced feature films with recognizable filmmaking institutions like the CBC, the NFB, and Knowledge Network.

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Gloria led the impact campaign for Coextinction, which resulted in over 100 impact screenings and educated over 50,000 people on the plight of the Southern Resident orcas. She also organised a 371km march from Portland to Ice Harbour Dam to bring national awareness to the obsolete Snake River dams pushing salmon and orcas to extinction and violating Tribal Treaty rights. In partnership with SeaDoc Society, her team presented 23,981 signatures to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to stop a pinniped cull in the Columbia River basin.

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Gloria has spent 500+ hours monitoring the critically endangered Southern Resident orcas, Northern Resident orcas, humpback whales and other marine life with OrcaLab and Cetus Research & Conservation Society. ​​

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She works closely with communities and organizations on the coast to amplify and support their work through multimedia and impact strategy.​​ She lives on the unceded land of the K'omoks First Nation, with her partner and dog, where she is devoted to protecting the Southern Resident orcas, supporting coastal restoration and rematriation efforts.