Members

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Shreyashi, our Legal Fellow this summer, is a recent graduate with an  LLM in International Human Rights Law from UCLA. She joined S+A because she’s passionate about survivor-centered policy making that fosters a culture of institutional accountability and transformative justice. Her current research and advocacy work focuses on conflict related gender and sexual violence, slavery crimes and decolonizing international justice. 

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Emma Tolliver is a law student at the University of Washington - School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science - Public Service from UC Davis in June 2023. Her work, research, and advocacy primarily centers on human rights, trauma-informed responses to sexual violence, freedom from violence, and youth justice and engagement; she hopes to become a legal advocate for survivors of human trafficking and other forms of sexual violence. Emma has been involved with S+A since 2023 and served as a Legal Fellow for S+A during the summer of 2024. 

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Georgia Lavery Van Parijs is a rising senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, double majoring in English and Gender Studies. Her interests and work focus on women’s rights and reproductive justice. She has research experience in both the UCLA Departments of Public Health and Gender Studies with a focus on improving responses and outcomes of sexual assault victims and understanding the responses of different community sectors to survivors of sexual assault. She has also been actively engaged in the research and work being accomplished at the Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center and Planned Parenthood. Currently, Georgia leads campus activism as President of IGNITE, a national association to empower civically engaged women. She is exploring further studies in law or graduate school to continue her impact on public policy and systemic change.

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Ava Calbreath recently graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s degree in Labor Studies and a minor in Film, Television, and Digital Media. Ava joined Survivors and Allies for the summer as part of the Research Communications team with the hope of furthering S+A’s mission to improve SVSH awareness and response programs on UC campuses.

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Nohely is a second-year MPH student in the Community Health Sciences department at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (FSPH). Although they are a recent S+A member their involvement in sexual violence prevention began as an undergraduate student at UC Riverside (UCR), where they worked at the Women's Resource Center and later became a sexual assault advocate with the Riverside Area Rape Crisis Center. They graduated with a B.S. in Biology from UCR in 2020. Nohely's interests involve sexual violence prevention, trauma-informed care practices, and health disparities among marginalized communities. They're also engaged in bridging abolitionist principles into public health praxis through the Health Not Punishment Collective at UCLA. 

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Siri is  a second year undergraduate student at UCLA pursuing a B.A. in Public Affairs. They are a recent S+A fellow interested in working towards the expansion of resources for underserved survivors within the UC system. She is passionate about reproductive justice and violence prevention at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Her past work involves education and advocacy efforts for domestic and gender-based violence prevention, client-centered welfare practices for at-risk youth, and community organizing within Asian American and LGBTQ+ spaces. In their free time, they enjoy reading and creative work through the visual arts such as crocheting, painting, and sculpting.  

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Rina Rossi is an MA student in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at New York University. She has been a member of S+A since her freshman year at UC Berkeley in Fall 2020. At Berkeley, she also worked as a Peer Coordinator at the campus PATH to Care office. At S+A, she is working on the research paper, presented at the webinar on the S+A report, and served as a Policy Fellow last summer. A writer and editor who has written about S+A for The Nation, Rina studies the history of abortion and sexual violence during the Colonial Era in the Caribbean. In the future, she hopes to become a professor in Caribbean Studies while also lawyering for reproductive and survivor justice. 

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Ariana Schieferle is a MPH candidate in Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, returning to the university after receiving a B.S. in Biochemistry and Gender Studies. She is a Research Assistant for Dr. Jennifer Wagman in the Department of Community Health Sciences at UCLA, researching for UC Speaks Up research projects. Ariana’s focus is on international and college-campus based gender-violence prevention, and has conducted multiple studies with victim-survivors within the UC system, members of Greek life at UCLA, and various community members within the LA area. Ariana hopes to continue to focus on the social and behavioral epidemiology during her Masters at UCLA. 

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Sara just graduated with her Ph.D. from UCLA’s department of Social Welfare and is a general advisor for the fellowship team. She co-founded S+A because she felt like the UC administration wasn't listening to students, and she wanted to build collective power. She was also searching for a community of people with similar experiences. In 2025, Sara joined the Sociology Department at Cal Poly Pomona as an Assistant Professor.

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Chloe Tran (she/her) is a Master of Public Health student at the University of California, Irvine, concentrating in Global Health. She recently graduated in June 2024 from the University of California, Davis with a Bachelor's of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Human Development. Her current interests stem from working in mental health education, harm and crisis prevention, and researching adolescent peer relationships throughout her undergraduate studies. Her passion in research, health promotion, and advocacy motivated her to continue her work at the graduate level with S+A to amplify UC students' voices and call for action.

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Deeptha graduated from UCLA School of Law with an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, Public Interest Law and Policy, Law and Sexuality, and Human Rights. She is a co-founder of Raahi, a Bengaluru-based non-profit that offers pro bono crisis support to communities marginalized on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. Her current areas of research include conflict related sexual violence, anticolonial re-imagination of international justice, and housing rights. She joined S + A as a 2025 Winter Legal Fellow.

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Marisa Imbroane is an alumni of UCLA, receiving her BS in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology in 2022. She is currently a medical student at Case Western Reserve University SOM with a plan to pursue a career in OB-GYN after she graduates in 2026. Marisa is a co-founding member of Survivors + Allies and is looking forward to using her experiences with S+A to provide trauma-informed care for her patients in the future.

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Stephanie Ha is an MS in Epidemiology student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. in Human Development, concentrating in Public Health and Sociology. She has been involved with S+A since Fall 2024, and her research focuses on reproductive and sexual health outcomes and violence prevention. Aside from research, she has extensive experience in public health education, data visualization, leadership, and community-engaged advocacy.