She/Her/Hers
Class of 2024
What does well-being mean to you?
Well-being to me is connectivity: building the capacity to tune in to the many sides of yourself, and the ways in which your body/the many sides of yourself exist perpetually in relation to a moving world of other bodies and selves. Well-being to me is when these relationships, between you/the different parts of yourself, and your acting self/others are generally "well," "well" being inevitably imperfect and in flux, but grounded in accountability and thus mitigated by care.
What drew you to becoming a Peer Health Educator?
For as long as I've been on campus, I've invested much of my time in changing campus culture around accountability and care regarding sexual violence and the structures that underpin it. I came to that work from the realm of eating disorder awareness, and advocacy around the crises of well-being that fatphobia (and the anti-black patriarchal frameworks that support fatphobia) pose to youth, and how they are exacerbated by media. I wanted to be a peer health educator because I've experienced and extensively studied the ways in which dominant health narratives often negatively impact well-being. I want to push grounding health practice at Oxy in intersectional understandings of systemic inequality, so that more students can (hopefully) have access to "well-being" care.
What’s your favorite thing about Oxy?
The academic freedom and the passion of the student body!