Portrait Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel. Foto: Noëlle Guidon.

Gabriella is a freelance journalist and neocolor enthusiast based in Zurich.

My story could be over here.
But it's a little more complicated than that.

Because I do many different things. One could say: I have many different faces.

What I’d love you to see: All my various sides, experiences, places, they melt into each other.

They allow me an insider and outsider perspective at the same time.

So here’s an incomplete list of things I have done and am currently doing:

Current:

I run a Substack-newsletter-magazine called Cramp Mag on reproductive and sexual rights. If I ever do pitch stories for media (which I don’t do as often anymore, because it’s dire out there…) it’s usually about those topics as well.

Co-Founder of The Creator Press, an association for Creator Journalism in the German speaking countries. We just published the first ever report on Creator Journalism in the DACH-countries.

I’m part of a peoples initiative trying to legalize abortion in Liechtenstein. Want to know more about it? Here’s a piece I wrote about it for the Guardian.

I often talk on stages and into microphones. I moderate talks, panels, book vernissages. I just co-produced a podcast on myths from Liechtenstein.

Since 2022 I’ve been hosting THE WRITE SIDE, an online writing hour taking place every two weeks via Zoom, open for everyone.

I too like offline gatherings, doing things together. I organize panels or live readings, host journaling workshops, or invite people to host workshops together depending on what they do.

My studio is based in the Gaswerkareal Schaffhausen, where I work on art projects with the k medusa collective. Our current project: «Provincial Blue(s)».

I write short stories and literary journalistic pieces. Sometimes I read them on stage, sometimes they get published.

I’m based in Zurich. I spend a lot of time in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where my family is from, and in Liechtenstein, where I grew up.

Since 2024 I’ve been studying Psychology. This is one of the reasons I currently work some weekly hours at the Opferhilfe Zurich for the 142 phone number for victims of violence.

Past:

I’ve studied journalism and worked as a journalist in Swiss newsrooms before going on a three-year van trip from North to South America in 2016.

Since then I’ve been self-employed.

I’ve written and conceived several smaller and bigger publications. Three of those were for Swiss museums on their participatory projects.

I was part of: the Zurich based feminist art festival KIN (2026), multidisciplinary art project «Oh, Darling» (2024), the movie series «Bodies & Choices» at Kino Xenix (2023).

For several years I co-ran Büro Luz, a copywriting and editorial agency.

I wrote copy, concepts, strategy for: Kinderspital Zürich, Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte (SKKG), Kulturzüri, Swiss Life, Swisscom, Energie Schweiz/WIRSINDZUKUNFT, Amt für Soziale Dienste FL, Regierung FL, Kulturtage Schaffhausen, Migros Engagement, and so many more.

With the rise of LLM I felt like this chapter needed to be closed.

As a child I carved a halloween pumpkin apparently so special that it won me a weekend on a farm in Liechtenstein. I remember giving it a ivy crown and being incredibly surprised about my win.

Some buzzwords? I’ll try. I somehow keep ending up at the intersections of:

journalism and writing, arts and culture, reproductive rights/health/justice, community – and whatever sounds like fun.

I love to work with: Big ideas. Idealism paired with realism. Kind people. If you have one or several of those I must insist: please reach out.