Vitallia Williams (she/her)
Vitallia ’22 is an Army veteran from North Carolina with a passion for disability advocacy, racial equity, and Survivor-centered justice. Vitallia studies Sociology and Government with a focused interest in ethics and justice in U.S. public policy. She is a member of COSO, Palaeopitus Senior Society, the Student Organization Accountability Program, and serves on the Undergraduate Finance Council. She is a proud member of the Pi Theta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Embattled is important to her because she believes communities must be offensive, defensive, and restorative in approaches to and conversations about sexual and gendered violence.
Juan Quinonez Zepeda (He/Él)
Juan is a ‘22 from Coldwater, Mississippi studying Geography and Education with a concentration in agricultural labor. He is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and holds an Undergraduate Research Assistantship in the History Department working on patterns of Latinx migration in the 20th century Midwest. Apart from this work, he is the current Co-Director of the Coalition for Immigration Reform and Equality at Dartmouth (CoFIRED), Co-founder of the FUERZA Farmworkers’ Fund, team member of Mississippi Freedom School Project, and in the Palaeopitus Senior Society. He is honored to be a part of Embattled and hopes to provide resources to under-served communities and folxs.
Emily Lu (she/her)
Emily is a ’23 from Austin, TX studying anthropology, geography, and public policy. She is a member of SPCSA, conducts research on maternal wellbeing in the anthropology department, and writes for The Dartmouth. She is passionate about health equity and access to all forms of care. She joined Embattled to support communities engaging in the important work of gender-based violence prevention at Dartmouth.
Hannah LeBaron (she/her)
Hannah is a ’22 from Massachusetts studying Cognitive Science and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. At Dartmouth, Hannah is the co-president of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, volunteers with the ACLU of NH, serves as the Sexual Health and Wellness chair for her sorority, and does independent research in the Phillab. Her research’s focus spans the fields of moral psychology and RMS (race migration and sexuality), and she is currently working on an honors thesis project considering the cognitive construction of intersectional identity. She is eager to be involved with an organization like Embattled which advocates for alternative grassroots approaches to the entrenched issue of campus sexual violence. After Dartmouth she hopes to pursue law school and find future opportunities to work defending the fundamental right to reproductive autonomy.
Gia Kim (she/hers)
Gia is a ’22 from Hau’ula, HI majoring in Computer Science modified with Digital Arts. She joined Embattled because people who hold crucial conversations that positively shift campus culture should be supported and encouraged.
Staff Advisor to the Support Board
Dean Brizant (she/her)
Hello Everyone! My name is Dean Angela Brizant, and I joined the OPAL team in November 2019. My primary role is to advise and support the Black & Pan-African undergraduate student community at Dartmouth. I am passionate about Embattled, because I have witnessed the incredible work of the founders to build, heal, and transform our community, and I want to support their effort in every way that I can.
