The role of the APDA Equal Opportunity Facilitators (EOFs) is twofold. Our primary obligation is to respond to instances of inequality. This includes serving as Equity Officers (EOs) at individual tournaments and stepping in when people act unjustly in rounds, in GA, at socials, or on individual teams. Our job isn’t to be punitive, but rather to make sure everyone has the ability to participate in APDA without feeling mentally or physically unsafe. Our secondary obligation is to prevent instances of inequity by educating peers one-on-one, collaborating with other committees, creating informational materials, and being role models. These actions can make APDA safer as a whole.

Each tournament has two EOFs from different schools.

You may always file an equity complaint at this link here.

If you would like to speak to an EOF, feel free to reach out to any of the members below. To find an EOF for your tournament, you can ask any EOF yourself or message the chair or board liaison if you need help reaching out.

Liaison: 

Sydney Cook (Chicago)

Chair:

Sahil Sud (Georgetown)

Committee: 

Raina Batra (Amherst)	Tosca Neumann (Bates)
Oscar Cloutier Potter (BU)	John Yule (BU)
Elena Leeds (Northeastern)	Jarrett Lobb (Northeastern)
Andrew Rozenblit (Tufts)	Natali Sarraf (Tufts)
Sruthi Bharath Kumar (Wellesley)	Hanna Bae (Wellesley)
Sydney Cook (Chicago)	Pranav Garigipati (Rutgers)
Kaitlin Wing (GW)	Rachel Disler (GW)
Alex Elstrodt (UVA)	Violet Whitmire (UVA)