Caroline

Caroline is a junior in high school in Virginia. She got involved with PAVE because she believes in the importance of raising awareness about sexual assault and educating others about consent. Caroline has been involved with PAVE for about one year, after starting a chapter at Potomac High School in March of 2020.

Abrianna

Abrianna Morales is a survivor, advocate, and activist from Las Cruces, New Mexico. Aside from her advocacy work, Abrianna attends the University of New Mexico (UNM) as an undergraduate and is studying psychology, criminology, and math; she intends to pursue a JD/PhD in Forensic Clinical Psychology and is interested in researching mental illness and criminal behavior, as well as risk management and recidivism reduction for convicted sexual offenders. 

Abrianna developed her passion for victim advocacy and activism through her own experiences with victimization. After being sexually assaulted at the age of 15, she was inspired to ensure that other youth were able to face the emotional, social, and legal difficulties of victimization while feeling supported, empowered, and connected. In 2017, she founded Sexual Assault Youth Support Network (SAYSN)--an organization devoted to the support, empowerment, and connection of youth sexual assault survivors and those that support them. Since then, she has had many opportunities to speak publicly about her experiences with trauma and recovery, including at TEDxABQ: Women 2017 and as a member of the Victim Tribute Plenary for NOVA’s 45th Annual Conference in 2019. In addition to public speaking, Abrianna has also advocated and testified as an expert witness for legislation to extend the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse in New Mexico (SB55 [2019]; SB97 [2020]; SB310 [2021]).

As an advocate, Abrianna is particularly passionate about survivor-led, survivor-driven advocacy and outreach efforts. To her, survivors are best supported, empowered, and connected by exercising agency in their healing--by learning to advocate for themselves and others.

Aarna

Aarna is a youth activist and senior at Sunset High School in Oregon. She is passionate about sexual violence advocacy, gender equity and intersectional activism. She founded Students Against Sexual Oppression and gave a Tedx Youth Talk about her passion for sexual violence advocacy. She is a peer led sex educator with Planned Parenthood and is involved with many clubs and student government at her school.

Noah

Noah is a seventeen-year-old high school student from Washington, DC. At Georgetown Day School, Noah became involved in conversations regarding masculinity, consent, and victim-blaming culture through the discussion group Boys Leading Boys (BLB).  A group that he would later lead, BLB strives to engage male-identifying teenagers in gender-related issues, a field that many young men stray away from.  Noah was a fellow of the GDS Policy Institute in 2018 focusing on affordable housing and living wage in the DMV.  Since participating in the Policy Institute, Noah has expanded on his passion for activism through joining the Sunrise Movement. He continues to involve BLB in discussions about sexual assault awareness and prevention and is excited to further his involvement in this work through PAVE’s Teen Survivors Week of Action this April.

Ali

Ali is a sophomore at the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. She co-founded the PAVE Washington D.C. Chapter after hearing one of PAVE's representatives speak at her school. She is an advocate for sexual assault survivors and increasing consent education, especially at the high school level. Ali strongly believes in intersectional activism and the importance of including marginalized groups in sexual assault awareness advocacy. She is also an advocate for menstrual equity at Mission Red, an organization she co-founded. Ali hopes that the PAVE Washington D.C. Chapter is a safe place for survivors to come forward for support, acceptance, and resources.

Isabel

Isabel is a student advocate from the Potomac School, a founding member of the PAVE Potomac Chapter, and is currently a Junior in high school. She is passionate about sexual assault awareness and making a change in her community, and she loves working with PAVE!

Sydney

Sydney is a seventeen-year-old student from Washington DC. After attending the 2017 Summit on Sexual Assault and Consent, Sydney joined a group of students working to support survivors, educate others, and advocate on behalf of survivor justice and consent education. She developed an independent study curriculum addressing sexual assault and consent. She helped lead, plan, and run both the 2018 and 2019 Summit on Sexual Assault and Consent.  Sydney represented the youth role in advocacy and education as a  guest speaker at several national conferences. Throughout her high school career, she has worked to advocate for survivors of sexual assault and worked to educate peers and younger students about consent. This fall, Sydney is going off to college, where she intends to study Public Health with specializations in both gender-based violence and reproductive health care. She hopes to bring her knowledge, experience, and passion to continue her social justice work and advocacy on addressing sexual assault on campus. 

Liana

Liana is a junior at Georgetown Day School. Liana first became involved with issues surrounding consent when her eighth grade history teacher was arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with a student in her class. This teacher was also the head of Liana’s middle school’s gender equality group and after the teacher’s arrest, the group stopped meeting. Liana felt that dibanding the group because of the recent events was atrocious and took over leading the club. Instead of the annual assembly the group usually put on, Liana planned a day of workshops during which she lead a program about sexual assault and consent, guiding her peers through difficult conversations. In highschool, Liana has attended her school’s annual summit on sexual assault for two years and assisted planning the summit in her third year. Liana hopes to continue her work on this issue into her senior year and college experience specifically focusing on beginning consent education at a young age and exploring the intersection of consent in religious communities.