Gabrielle Ante
Commencement Student Speaker 2020
Gabrielle Ante was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and raised in the Philippines. She and
her family permanently settled in the United States when she began seventh grade at
Arlington High School.
After graduating high school in 2015, Ante enrolled at Riverside City College, where
she joined the RCC Women’s Tennis team for two years while pursuing her general education
requirements as a Chemical Engineering major. She earned her first degree in Math
and Science in 2018.
Ante later discovered that even though she earned the Math and Science degree with
the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum plan (IGETC), she was one
class short of obtaining the certification. She quickly began investigating and connecting
with professors and counselors who helped her towards completion.
Today, she is graduating with seven additional associate degrees in Pre-Engineering,
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Social and Behavioral Studies, Humanities, and Communications.
Her degrees come from a variety of disciplines, like the School of STEM, School of
Arts & Humanities, and School of Social & Behavioral Sciences.
She plans to transfer to a four-year university to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Chemical
Engineering. In the future, she seeks to gain experience in research and development
as a Chemical Engineer while working toward a master’s degree and eventually a doctorate.
Ante comes from a family immersed in the STEM field. Her father is a health care practitioner
and her mother is a registered nurse.
Raised in a Filipino culture centered on family and self-development, she owes her
success to her family’s support and guidance. Ante aspires to build a strong foundation
of knowledge and community by connecting ideas and working hard to apply them in hopes
to improve society. In her spare time, she enjoys watching movies, reading and drawing.