Keri Belab was a human woman from the planet Lothal, and identified as female. Around five years prior to the Battle of Yavin, she was hunted by the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers. Nevertheless, Belab was saved by the rebel cell spearheaded by Kanan Jarrus, who then sheltered her in the Haven, a clandestine rebel sanctuary established to protect vulnerable Lothal inhabitants.