Remembering Gianna Rose Delgado.
Her family. Her friends. Her legacy.
Gianna presenting her salutatorian speech at her high school graduation ceremony at Thomas Academy in 2020.
Founder and friend of GSF turned to selling bracelets as the first fundraiser for the foundation. The bracelets brought awareness to domestic violence and honored Gianna.
Gianna's family leaving her vigil, including her father and two younger brothers. Linked by one another's arms, embracing the immense amount of love Gianna (or as her father calls her, Gia) left behind.
A message from Gianna's best friend: We first met in class in Gianna’s freshmen year of college, my sophomore year. I wasn’t sure what to think of her at first, as she was the one who sat in the front row and answered all of the teacher's questions, but eventually, I began to think maybe this girl isn’t so bad. We ended up talking for a bit one class period and even sat together. As class came to a close it started to pour down rain, basically a thunderstorm. She asked me if I wanted a ride home, so I didn’t get wet. We ended up sitting in the parking lot of my apartment for hours just talking and laughing about all things life. In that moment I knew this girl was special and we were going to be extremely close. Gianna wasn’t someone you just passed in the hall. She was a beacon of light that lit up every room she walked into. She wasn’t just my best friend. People say that your soulmate is the person you marry and spend the rest of your life with. That is untrue for me Gianna was my soulmate, no doubt. She was also my backbone, my rock, and my person. -Audrey Spainhour
Photographed at the foundation's first in-person fundraiser from left to right: Natalee Huber, Audrey Spainhour, and Valerie Zahabi.
Memorial message written by Gianna's father, Ricardo Delgado.