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Gabriela Quiros:

Tango 73: A Bus Rider's Diary

Gabriela Quiros was born in Boston and grew up in Costa Rica, where she worked as a reporter for Spanish- and English-language newspapers. In 1995 she won Costa Rica's National Science Reporting Award. The following year she moved to the United States to study at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in documentary production.

Gabriela is currently directing and producing a documentary about how Costa Rica became the only country in the world to outlaw in vitro fertilization (IVF), a treatment for infertility.

She works as a segment producer for the science and environment series QUEST, produced by San Francisco's public television station KQED -- www.kqed.org/quest

Gabriela was an associate producer on the documentary Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home. The film, directed by Noel Schwerin and broadcast nationally on PBS in 2003, explores the legal and ethical dilemmas raised by new genetic and reproductive technologies. She was also an associate producer on the 1999 FRONTLINE documentary Secrets of the SAT, directed by Michael Chandler. She was an assistant editor and subtitlist on Senorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman), Lourdes Portillo's 2001 award-winning documentary on the mass murders of women in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and the impunity surrounding them.

Gabriela was trained in modern dance and is an avid contemporary dance fan, as well as a lover of Brazilian music. She lives outside Berkeley, California, with her husband, arts and culture writer Andrew Gilbert.

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