Eva Packer, BA
Eva is a Violence Prevention Program Coordinator at the Women's Resource and Action Center (WRAC) at the University of Iowa. Through this position, Eva works collaboratively to help design, coordinate, and implement various sexual and violence prevention measures for students, staff, and faculty across the University of Iowa campus and the Iowa City community. This includes, but is not limited to, developing facilitated workshops on topics such as bystander intervention, healthy relationships, enthusiastic consent, and challenging harm & creating cultures of care through overseeing and supporting the Certified Peer Educator team—a group of student educators who help to reach thousands of students, staff, and faculty through these facilitated violence prevention workshops.
Eva received her bachelor's degree in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Human Relations and a certificate in Resilience and Trauma-Informed Perspectives in the Spring of 2025 from the University of Iowa with honors and as a presidential scholar. She is passionate about and committed to holistic health, healing, and care for everybody through the use of empathy and nuance. She advocates for affordable and trauma-informed housing and spaces, in addition to the freedom for everyone to make adequate and informed choices for themselves.
Prior to her role as a Violence Prevention Coordinator, Eva was a Certified Peer Educator at WRAC during her time as a student for three of her four undergraduate years. She also completed a semester abroad in Amsterdam on International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender through the School for International Training (SIT) during the Spring of 2024.
Eva was born and raised in Iowa City, and is very close to and spends lots of time with her family—made up of her mom, dad, stepmom, two little sisters, and pets. She also loves to hang out with her friends, spend time soaking up the sun and in the water, read, and take long and luxurious baths.
