Gabrielle Fernandez is a foreign studies professor at a prestigious university. She is 38 years old, and from the dominican republic. She has a latina attitude, and is a martial arts istructor. It helps her deal with surviving as both a latina, and a woman in the teaching world. She was in her personal office one day, when a shy geeky 18 year old college student of hers walked in without knocking. He shrank her down to the size of a barbie doll, and stuck her to the desk with tape, and left.