Staff
Brittany Ramos DeBarros (she)
Organizing Director
Brittany came to About Face: Veterans Against the War with a diverse mix of business, military and non-profit leadership experiences that cemented her deep passion and commitment to intersectional movement building work. She deployed to Afghanistan for a year in 2012 and has worked on economic and racial liberation issues in various capacities since she returned. She is particularly passionate about leveraging her experience as a Psychological Operations Officer to center narrative and behavior change in campaign strategy. She is based in NYC.
Shiloh Emelein (they/them)
Community Care Director
Shiloh is a queer, trans, non-binary creature living with their fluffy cats on Ohlone Land (also known as the Bay Area, California). Their world view and moral compass were turned upside down while deployed with their Marine Helicopter Support Unit in Al Anbar Province, Iraq and then Kuwait City, Kuwait from 2006-2007. They joined About Face in 2018 with the hope in action to catalyze change and repair the harms caused by the Military Industrial Complex. Shiloh believes that the reclamation and celebration of our bodies, our joy, and our pleasure is at the core of demilitarizing ourselves, our beliefs, and the structures we currently live within. They are thrilled to have the chance to care for the About Face community in a light of collective liberation and collective healing.
Rebecca Roberts (she/her)
Organizing Manager
Rebecca has been a member of About Face: Veterans Against the War since the spring of 2024 and joined the full-time staff in December 2024 as Organizing Manager. She enlisted in the NJ Air National Guard in 2012 and later commissioned as an Infantry officer in the Army in 2017, followed by a deployment to Djibouti in 2019. She decided she could no longer remain complicit through her service after watching the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza and resigned in December 2023. Rebecca recently completed her Masters in United Nations and Global Policy with a focus on conflict resolution and human rights and is passionate about leveraging her organizational leadership skills to contribute to the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement space.
Alex Kery
Operations Manager
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