Gabby Perales (she/her) is a senior at the College of Charleston, where she is pursuing degrees in Psychology and Jewish Studies with a minor in Communication. She is set to graduate in May 2025. Gabby’s research interests include the transmission of intergenerational trauma. Post-grad, Gabby plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology.

Gabby previously worked as a Gilda Slifka Research Intern at Brandeis University, where she worked with Dr. Samantha Pickette on her project, “Bridging the JAP: Funny Jewish Women and the Reframing of Jewish Femininity in American Pop Culture” and on a personal project entitled “Lanterns Lit,” a multi-media video exploring the unique experience Jewish mothers faced in their attempts to resist during the Holocaust, and the strength and resolve necessary to rebuild in the aftermath of it.

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Gabby is the PTL Project's Public History Intern, which is co-sponsored by the College of Charleston's Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies. During her internship (August - December 2024), Gabby will research and produce a Profile Resource Kit for our LGBTQ+ Stories from Nazi Germany initiative. She will also manage the Project’s social media accounts, including the creation and posting of content.

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"I was motivated to join the Pink Triangle Legacies Project," Gabby said, "because of its dedication to telling the stories of people history has seldom paid attention to and making Holocaust education accessible to an increasingly wide and inclusive audience. The Pink Triangle Legacies Project, represents to me an opportunity to platform and share the narratives of marginalized groups who were targeted during the Holocaust and ensure that these people, their lives, and the impacts they made on others does not get ignored, erased, or forgotten. At a time when the LGBTQ+ community faces attacks far and wide on their rights, acknowledging and respecting their history is more important than ever."