Gabrielle Schonder
Director
Gabrielle Schonder is a multi-Emmy award-winning director covering politics, national affairs, foreign policy, and national security for over a decade at PBS FRONTLINE, and 60 MINUTES. She was a 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
Gabrielle had her directorial debut in 2020 with The NRA: Under Fire. She was a member of the FRONTLINE team that covered the insurrection on January 6th in America After 9/11. Last year she co-directed the three part investigative climate series Black Gold, Executive Produced by Oscar Nominee Darren Aronofsky. Her upcoming project is America's Dangerous Trucks, a collaboration with ProPublica and FRONTLINE.
Gabrielle’s Frontline films include America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump, Supreme Revenge, The Mueller Investigation, Zero Tolerance, Trump’s Showdown, Trump’s Takeover, Bannon’s War, Trump’s Road to the White House, and the four-hour Divided States of America.
Prior to joining PBS, Gabrielle was an investigative producer at 60 Minutes, the highest rated news program in history. Her coverage of the 2015 Paris Attacks for the broadcast was recognized with an Emmy® award. Her groundbreaking report about insider trading by members of Congress led to the passage of The STOCK Act. The report was honored with three Emmy® nominations and a Joan Shorenstein Barone Award from the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.