Gabriela Mercado is a Mexican documentary filmmaker and producer working at the intersection of cinema, human rights, and environmental justice. She holds a B.A. in Film from SAE Mexico and Middlesex University, London. As a co-founder of the NGO Be Foundation, she documented hundreds of cases of Mexicans living in the United States without legal identity in their own country. And testimonies she brought before Mexico's Congress and policy forums in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C., helped drive two landmark constitutional reforms in Mexico that guarantee the universal right to identity for millions of Mexicans at home and abroad. Her work explores migration, statelessness, forced displacement, and systemic injustice. She has collaborated with Amnesty International, UNHCR, and most recently Sea Shepherd in efforts to protect the vaquita, the world's most endangered marine mammal, endemic to Mexico.

Since 2020, her activism extends beyond the screen as creative director of her family-owned brand, Nanah, Latin America's leading plastic-free personal care brand. Sourcing local ingredients led her to partner with farming cooperatives across Mexico and to stand alongside the chinampero community of San Gregorio Atlapulco in defense of their land, water, and ancestral knowledge. Through a press effort coordinated by Nanah, the water crisis threatening the ancient chinampa ecosystem reached the cover of National Geographic en Español.