Gisselle Pichardo

Coaching Contractor

Marketer, professional voiceover actress and bilingual master of ceremonies. She currently works at Salem Media Group as a Producer Director and Host of the Radio show “Clasificados”. The show is broadcast LIVE on air through KNTS 1680 AM.

Gisselle is also an instructor of the Advanced Marketing Program with Ventures, where she teaches Branding and Digital Marketing classes for graduate students, and entrepreneurs of the Business Development program.

Gisselle has collaborated with different organizations for the past 8 years including the Seattle Latino Film Festival, ALPFA Seattle, NAWMBA Seattle Afrolatino Festival, Latin Empire of Seattle, La TribUne, Mujeres of the Northwest, Seattle Latino Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Latino Theater Projects, OmegaUp, the One Billion Rising Seattle movement, Gold Creek Church, Mujeres Poderosas, among others. For two years, she was part of the TV show “Actitud Latina” broadcasted through Azteca América Seattle, and she also co-hosted “Conexión Contigo”, a radio show on ESPN Deportes Seattle. In 2013, Gisselle had the opportunity to be part of the play “Grace in the Margins” presented at the Meydenbauer Center in front of an audience of more than 1,800 women from around the world.

As a community advocate, Gisselle feels passionate about social causes, reason that led her and her husband Elbert Fernández to create 4 years ago “Blankets for a Cause Seattle”, an initiative in support of the homeless individuals in Seattle.

Gisselle is the mother of 3 daughters, Sophia, Miranda & Amalia, and in her free time she enjoys spending quality time with her family and friends, hiking, and watching  movies with her husband, her ally and partner in crime for the past 15 years.

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