Gabriela Alejandra Rivadeneira Burbano (born 25 July 1983) is an Ecuadorian politician.

During the Correa-Moreno split within PAIS, she sided with the former, leaving the party and becoming one of the leaders of the Citizen Revolution Movement.

The organisation later produced the first children's film in Ecuador, Sara la Espantapájaros.

[4] Rivadeneira has said that in her youth she sprayed graffiti for ideological goals as a protest against foreign debt, free-trade treaties and the presence of the U.S. Manta Air Base at Eloy Alfaro International Airport.

[5] Rivadeneira started her political career as councilwoman for the municipality of Otavalo; she served in this capacity between 2004 and 2008.

[8] In 2011 in the power struggle that saw Rafael Correa take over the leadership of the Alianza Pais party, a National board was created.

[9] To take up this position Rivadeneira was forced to lay down her function of Vice Prefect in the same province.

On 14 May 2013 Rivadeneira was chosen as President of the National Assembly after receiving 107 of 137 votes in her favor.

Earlier, Correa had mentioned Rivadeneira as a possible successor while he was on a visit to Imbabura Province.

[19] On 15 February 2017 her office received a bomb threat when a CD package with explosives was delivered.

[24] During the Correa-Moreno split within PAIS, she sided with the former, leaving the party and becoming one of the leaders of the Citizen Revolution Movement.

[1][25] During the October 2019 Ecuadorian protests Rivadeneira sought refuge in the embassy of Mexico in Quito.