In addition, Gagne continues to campaign on local and national levels to make Automated External Defibrillators mandatory in our schools.
Gagne has been interviewed nationally on CNN, Fox News and Inside Edition, as well as being featured in various publications including USA Today, Newsweek online (personally written article) and The Boston Globe.
Despite her heart condition, Gagne is an accomplished athlete, competing regularly in soccer and basketball, and is an MIAA certified high school track and field coach.
She is currently an art teacher at St. Vincent's Home, a residential/educational facility for children in need, as well as providing crisis/adjustment counseling in the Fall River school system.
Her volunteer work ranges from traveling to Africa to set up a medical clinic in the Bukoba region of Tanzania, to being a mentor for the Peaceful Coalition, a student group consisting of gang-involved and/or at-risk males.