Ms Gonzales is head of the hydroponics la and teaches botany at H.I.V.E. She specializes in genetic manipulation of plants and also stores plants of the more deadly kind in her large greenhouse at H.I.V.E. which often come in usful to Raven.
In the first book she is trapped in her greenhouse when Nigel's plant, Violet starts to destroy it, she is set free by the guards who then try to get rid of Violet.