Who We Are

Eliz (EE-liz) is a fierce advocate for creating a culture of consent in the Tufts Community, and is honored to be a confidential resource for any student who is impacted by sexual misconduct.

She believes that connection and empathy are essential in healing, and offers trauma-informed talk-based appointments for anyone impacted by sexual misconduct.

As a queer, cis-gendered white woman, she is constantly reflecting on how her identities have provided her privilege as she moves through the world. She recognizes varying identities can impact an individual’s experience of healing, and how they can shape a student’s ability to feel safe with her. She believes it is her responsibility to provide culturally competent care or provide ample resources so all students can feel support in her office. She embraces the opportunity to have conversations about identity, power, and oppression.

Eliz is passionate that the pursuit of pleasure is an act of protest and fervently believes in the transformative power of sexual education for several important public health issues. She has experience across the spectrum of sexual health, including staffing intimate partner crisis lines, training undergraduate students to be sex educators, providing one-on-one support to survivors of sexual violence, and working as a sex educator in a sexual health and wellness store. After earning a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies degree from Washington University in St. Louis, she obtained a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University focused on Health Communication and Promotion and Sex, Sexuality, and Gender.

When not at work, you can most likely find Eliz in her garden, reading Greek mythology retellings, or enthusiastically picking up a new hobby she will abandon in a few weeks. She has too many opinions on whatever reality tv show is airing, and wants nothing more than for you to ask her about it.

Alexandra is deeply committed to students’ emotional and social wellbeing through her role as a confidential resource for anyone impacted by sexual misconduct and as the Director of CARE. She has an unwavering belief that the strongest among us are those that ask for help.

 Knowing every person is uniquely complex, Alexandra practices a holistic, trauma-informed approach to assist students in creating a path forward. She believes our cultures, identities, and socializations create diverse intersectional experiences that directly influence and impact our understandings of and reactions to trauma.

With identities as a white, cisgendered woman – and as a Director -- Alexandra is keenly aware of the power and privilege she holds. She is committed to personal introspection around her identities as well as life-long learning to develop knowledge and skills to combat systemic oppression.

 Prior to Tufts, Alexandra has worked with international humanitarian aid and crisis work, victim witness advocacy, community shelters, counseling centers, hospital-based victim advocacy, state-level victim advocacy and Cambridge Public Health Department. Alexandra earned a BA from Syracuse University, MA from George Washington University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in trauma, and an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from the University of Geneva. She has won awards for her innovative, creative programming and a US State Department Fellowship to study gender-based violence in Cairo, Egypt.

 In her free time, she tries to balance her loves of reading and watching far too much TikTok. She enjoys challenging herself with creative upcycling art projects. Most recently, she’s made a giraffe from old bike tires, a fox from old denim jeans and an owl from a vintage condom tin. She is studying mindful creativity with the goal of offering an additional program of healing and support at CARE.

Emma is passionate about her role as a confidential resource for any student impacted by sexual misconduct.

She believes healing is possible and that it looks different for everyone: she offers talking-based appointments as well as two trauma-informed yoga classes, Yoga for Healing and Yoga & Meditation for Emotional Wellbeing. She believes people’s identities impact the ways they experience, process, and heal from harm. As a white cisgendered woman, she has specific lived experiences that influence her perspective, but/and she works to provide culturally-responsive care and welcomes conversations about identity and oppression.

Emma is committed to CARE’s mission of education and prevention - she welcomes conversations with students who have caused harm or think they may have caused harm and is always open to discussions of consent, communication, and interpersonal dynamics.

As a state-certified Sexual Assault Counselor and Domestic Violence Advocate, she has worked at sexual health clinics, rape crisis centers, and as a violence prevention and sexual health educator. She earned a BA from Macalester College in Gender & Sexuality Studies and a Master's in Education from Harvard University with a focus on prevention programming. She has supported incarcerated survivors in jails and prisons, facilitated the Youth Leadership Corps at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, and co-led anti-racism trainings for the Boston Public Health Commission’s Division of Violence Prevention. She is the Staff Advisor to the Sex Health Reps and is a member of Tufts’ interdisciplinary Trans Health Team.

Emma leans hard into the “millennial plant mom” trope (which you’ll see if you come by her office) and has the same smoothie for breakfast every day (yes, every). When she’s not at work, she can be found stand up paddle boarding, making sassy/rated R embroidery, and watching trashy reality dating TV.