A University of South Florida graduate and former English teacher turned court reporter, Gayl opened and ran a successful steno school from 1975 to 1985.  The GHK School of Notereading & Court Reporting graduated over 85% of enrollees within two years, using disciplined admissions and strict study protocols.
 
With Gayl, you're not being taught by just any instructor.  Gayl has over 35 years experience as a court reporter, TV broadcast captioner, and CART provider. She owned Independent Reporting Service of Tampa, FL, and the GHK School of Court Reporting & Notereading, which was accredited by the Southern Accrediting Commission of Colleges and Schools and Approved by NCRA.  She pioneered Remote CART for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) in 2008. She trained many reporters in realtime and CART skills.
 
Gayl currently co-owns a CART Captioning firm, HRICART.com, as well as the Hardeman School, with husband Michael Agostinelli. She has been an NCRA member for over 35 years and served as treasurer, news editor, and president of the Florida Court Reporting Association.  She has presented national workshops, authored books, served as a Certified CaseCATalyst software trainer, and worked as both freelance Court Reporter and Captioner. 
 
For a year in Sydney, Australia, she captioned news and sports, starting with the horrific events of 9/11. She enjoyed learning about soccer by captioning The World Cup, among her assignments. In her career she has been privileged to report or caption such notables as Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, author Elie Weisel, Former President Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, TV journalist Lara Logan, the Jerry Lewis Telethon, Activist Chaz Bono, US Senator Tammy Duckworth, Actors RJ Mitte, Laverne Cox, Lupita Nyong'o, Geena Davis.  She also donated her services for transcription of interviews of young women who had been abducted into sex trafficking.
 
For her work in stenographic education, she received Distinguished Service Awards from the Florida and Massachusetts Court Reporting Associations.  In 2013 Gayl was appointed by the Governor of Florida to serve as the CART Captioner representative on the Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, served as its Chair, and was reappointed in 2016.  In 2016, Gayl was recognized as CART Provider of the Year from  Communication Access, Inc., a non-profit organization in Tampa. In 2017, she received FCRA's Arlene P. Sommers Outstanding Educator Award.

Gayl holds the distinction of Diplomate as an NCRA Fellow of the Academy of Professional Reporters (FAPR). Gayl held NCRA certifications as a Registered Diplomate Reporter (RDR), Registered Merit Reporter (RMR), Registered Professional Reporter (RPR), Florida and New Mexico CSRs, Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR), Certified CART Provider (CCP, now Certified Realtime Captioner, CRC), and Certified Reporting Instructor (CRI).  She now directs the Hardeman School.
 
She lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida with husband Michael Agostinelli and their two fun huskies. They enjoy music and art festivals, travelling, RV trips, and visiting their three grown sons and grandson.