Ariana is a third-year law student at Northeastern University School of Law and has completed co-ops (legal internships) with the Honorable Jay Blitzman in Lowell Juvenile Court, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Division of Civil Rights and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. On campus, Ariana is an active member of the NUSL community. She is the chair of the Women’s Law Caucus, refocusing the organization around issues of intersectionality, a member of the Human Rights Law Caucus, a lawyering fellow for first-year law students, and a research and teaching assistant for Professor Deborah Ramirez.

Ariana received her undergraduate degree from Connecticut College in anthropology, and gender and women’s studies. Throughout her undergraduate career, she researched policies and procedures of Title IX, the Campus SaVE Act and the Clery Act on college campuses throughout New England. Collaborating with Connecticut College’s Title IX office, Ariana worked to implement campus workshops focused on healthy relationships and reform Title IX policies.

Ariana also volunteered at Safe Futures, a local domestic violence shelter. After graduating from college, Ariana was a Teach For America fellow in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, for two years.

Jaime is a third-year law student at Northeastern University School of Law. She received bachelor’s degrees in political science and women and gender studies from Arizona State University, graduating with high honors. She has worked extensively providing direct support to survivors of sexual and domestic violence as a legal advocate with Sojourner Center, a domestic violence shelter in Phoenix, and as a teaching assistant with the Legal Assistance to Victims Project at the Domestic Violence Institute.

Jamie has completed co-ops (legal internships) with the National Institute for Reproductive Justice, where she worked to advance proactive reproductive rights state and local policy, at the National Women’s Law Center, where she worked to advance workplace justice, and with Massachusetts Representative Natalie Higgins, where she served as a Rappaport Fellow preparing legislation to advance rights of survivors.

Prior to joining the NUSL community, Jaime led statewide advocacy efforts and drafted successful legislative initiatives as the public information officer/legislative liaison with the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission and as the public policy advocate at the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence.

Gemma is a PhD student in sociology at Northeastern University. She began working with DVI in spring of 2020 to create and implement a data collection and research process for incoming clinic clients.

Prior to entering Northeastern, Gemma worked as a family advocate for Community Advocacy Program (at CCHERS, Inc.) at the Mattapan Community Health Center in Boston, working directly with survivors of domestic and dating violence to provide crisis intervention, counseling and advocacy, among other direct services. She has also worked as a senior corporate responsibility associate for Athenahealth, where she coordinated employee volunteer efforts and corporate donations for nonprofits and government agencies in Boston, Atlanta and Austin.

Gemma’s research interests include the intersections between sociology, law and public health, particularly within the context of intimate partner violence and victimization as direct manifestations of sociopolitical interlocking constructs, such as race, gender and class.

Gemma holds a master’s in public health (MPH) from Northeastern and a BA in journalism from Quinnipiac University.