Dr. Emily Palmieri is a licensed professional counselor and collective impact leader with over 15 years of clinical experience which has been applied to community settings at the outpatient, intensive in-home, and inpatient levels prior to formally transitioning her career into higher education student affairs in 2016. Dr. Palmieri holds a BS in Psychology with a minor in Industrial Design from North Carolina State University, dual MS and EdS degrees in Couples and Family Counseling and Community Mental Health from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from UNC, Charlotte with her dissertation focused on the relationships between resilience, burnout and gratitude practices in mental health counselors. Dr. Palmieri has been in leadership of confidential sexual violence offices since 2019, most recently at Emory University, where she spearheaded her institution’s commitment to Cohort 8 of the Culture of Respect Collective, resulting in rapid and significant system-wide improvements. As a family-systems and relational-cultural theorist, she believes we are always better when we provide sustainable support to one another as community members. Throughout her career, Dr. Palmieri has continuously built resources and led collective impact approaches to anti-oppression and anti-violence work. She enjoys considering ways to advocate for students, the staff who support them, and infrastructure systemically through qualitative and quantitative data narratives. Dr. Palmieri is a true preventionist at heart and believes in higher education's ability to work together to create a better future for all.