Gabrielle Lewis, Benefit Specialist

Gabrielle Lewis is a Benefit Specialist, for the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees’ Retirement System (MPERS). She reports directly to the Assistant Executive Director. The primary duties of a benefit specialist, are to provide members of MPERS with the information necessary to make informed decisions regarding their retirement benefits. This includes talking with prospective or new employees about the retirement and disability benefit provided by MPERS. Gabrielle also helps educate employees regarding the value of all of the benefits they receive as state employees. As a benefit specialist, she helps develop and conduct seminars for members nearing retirement, new employees as well as mid-career informational seminars, and assists in the production of webinars on various retirement-related topics.

Gabrielle transitioned to MPERS from the State of Missouri Deferred Compensation Plan. She began her career in the retirement sector in December of 2008 as a Participant Service Representative. Her duties included building relationships and meeting with active and retired members of MOSERS and MPERS, to inform them of the benefits within the program, encourage and educate long-term thinking, and how best to maximize their plan benefit.

Benefit specialists are many times the first faces and voices of MPERS with the members. All of the knowledge Gabrielle has obtained through her career allows her to successfully interact with members.

She received her Bachelor of Science in communication from Kaplan University in 2017.