Gabriella Sanchez-Evangelista
A 2nd year, PhD student at ASU, a National Security Boren Fellow and a US State Department National Scholar, her research focuses on innovations in criminal organizations, particularly those involved in drug and human trafficking operations along the US Mexico Border.
Gabriella receives training and resources through Phoenix Innovation Study, a specialized entrepreneurship research program exposing students to wide-ranging university expertise to help
understand the needs of metropolitan Phoenix. This interdisciplinary team of researchers is focusing on how to stimulate the economy and support local entrepreneurs by matching resources to community needs for education, networking and policy change.
Gabriella's active involvement in ASU’s entrepreneurship research has helped her formulate a stronger direction as she focuses on the study of criminal organizations and national security. She adds, "The Phoenix Innovation Study through Entrepreneurship at ASU has taught me how to re-map and even re-conceptualized my approach towards my research. This a collaboration of wonderful people working really hard towards the goal of changing other people's lives, being it through products, services, or the generation of new ideas."
ASU Phoenix Innovation Study Participants:
The School of Human Evolution & Social Change
The School of Justice and Social Inquiry
The Global Institute of Sustainability
The Center for Population Dynamics
The Institute for Social Science Research
The School of Geographical Sciences
The School of Social Work
The W. P. Carey School of Business