GABRIELLA ZUTRAU
GABRIELLA ZUTRAU
Digital Strategy Advisor on Zohran Mamdani's 2025 NYC mayoral campaign
A content creator in the pet niche, where she and her dog, “Edna The Runt” have hundreds of thousands of followers and reach tens of millions of people every month (@ednatherunt)
Gabriella Zutrau is a Digital Strategy Advisor to campaigns and organizations, with over a decade of experience. She is an organic social media expert, and has a background in community organizing. After her pioneering work on Zohran Mamdani's 2025 mayoral campaign, Gabbi is one of the nation’s leading experts in using social media chatbots as political organizing tools. She has trained hundreds of people in social media strategy and best practices for chatbot use in politics and advocacy.
In a very different lane, Gabbi is also a content creator in the pet niche, where she and her dog, Edna, have hundreds of thousands of followers and reach tens of millions of people every month. Gabbi also uses the “Edna The Runt” (@ednatherunt) pages as a lab where she experiments with digital tools and tactics before trying them with her clients.
Gabriella speaks on the intersection of politics, media, and emerging technology - covering current trends and predictions in political social media and key lessons from NYC’s 2025 mayoral race. She explores the evolving role of content creators in politics and marketing, from creative process to monetization, and how chat marketing is reshaping digital organizing. She also break down how AI is transforming social platforms and what that means for campaigns, creators, and the future of influence.
She can frame talks around:
Current trends and predictions in political social media
Learnings from NYC's 2025 mayoral race
The future of content creators in politics
AI and the future of social media
Chat marketing and political organizing
Content creator creative process and monetization