Gabrielle Butler // Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Gabrielle Butler is the Director of Development for The LifeShare Foundation, where she has served since 2021. She oversees all aspects of LifeShare’s fundraising, including strategic planning and donor relations. She previously served as the Senior Director of Development for the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits and manager for Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s capital campaign. She currently chairs the Governance Committee for the Oklahoma City Ballet. Gabrielle also participated in UCLA’s $4.2 billion capital campaign and USC’s $6 billion campaign, the largest in higher education history at the time of its announcement. She and her husband, Stephen, are founders of the nonprofit consulting firm, The Butlers Did It and a nonprofit incubator/accelerator.

An Oklahoma City native, Gabrielle has lived in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Baton Rouge working for organizations including the National Football League, UCLA, and USC. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Oklahoma, she holds a saster’s degree in Social and Cultural Foundations in Education from DePaul University. She and Stephen have two children, Ruby and Toussaint.