Huffington Magazine Issue 20 | Page 104

Bullying is a choice. How somebody acts and what they say to somebody is a choice. My disease was not a choice.” Exit GREATEST PERSON OF THE WEEK Gabrielle Ford Raising Hope for the Bullied BY EMMA DIAB SOME WOULD RATHER NOT remember their middle school days, much less walk through those doors again. Anti-bullying advocate Gabrielle ‘Gabe’ Ford not only visits middle schools regularly, but willingly relives her painful experiences each time. Since 2003, Ford, 32, has been speaking to children and adolescents in small classrooms, huge PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT SNOW HUFFINGTON 10.28.12