Gigi has been an independent researcher, focusing on the Italian Peninsula for the past 14 years. She studies and teaches about women’s lives, onomastics/heraldry, still-room alchemy, fashion, games/ pastimes, literature, and many more aspects of material culture. In 2018 she published a translation of 24 recipes from Catarina Sforza’s 15th-century "Gli Experimenti."

As a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) Gigi has founded and led an immersive A&S department at Gulf Wars, founded and stewarded the first virtual Known World Italian Symposium, and works to promote quintessential Salone culture across the Known World. She now serves as the first Black, female board member for the SCA. In a previous life she worked for the federal government for over 15 years as a social scientist, biologist, and environmental planner. Now retired, she lives her passion for sociocultural anthropology, living history, learning, traveling, and teaching.