Gabi Broekema is a visual journalist currently based in Wausau, a small town in the heart of Wisconsin. Coming from a history of rich, multicultural work, she has always ventured where her career takes her. Now, as the sole visual storyteller in USA Today's Central Wisconsin Network, she has been able to take the first official step as a photojournalist by having agency over the coverage across four Wisconsin towns.

Broekema's photojournalistic experience spans the past five years as she traveled the world through six-month internships with MLive: Kalamazoo Gazette Branch and the Colorado Springs Gazette alongside a study abroad experience at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark while simultaneously maintaining her home base in Bowling Green, Kentucky as she worked to complete her bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky University in May 2023. Her new home surrounded by dairy cows and sweet corn was an unexpected turn in her career but has been welcome nevertheless.

In her personal life, Broekema enjoys budgeting her days off to visit her friends across the world, and her hobbies consist of anything that gets her outdoors exploring the vast nature of wherever her love of photojournalism takes her.

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