Pat Stephens is the Director for the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Pat has experience in mental health field and 24 years with the County Board. She is a member of the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition and a participant with Partners Against the Trafficking of Humans (PATH) Program at The University of Toledo.
Read MoreCarolyn Haslam Rickert is President Elect of the Junior League of Greater Orlando and previously served on the JLGO committee which designed and implemented JLGO's first-ever Coast to Coast human trafficking awareness campaign and led the committee during the second year of the annual campaign.
Read MoreAlex Rister is a prior Francis Bok Human Trafficking Awareness fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida. Her dissertation focuses on human trafficking awareness. She is President of the Junior League of the Junior League of Greater Orlando and Chair of JLGO’s first-ever Human Trafficking Awareness Committee.
Read MoreKlara Smits is PhD-candidate at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the Mekelle University in Ethiopia. Smits researches the effect of digitalization in human trafficking through the case study of trafficking of Eritrean refugees. Smits also works at a Belgium-based NGO to map human trafficking and inform policy makers.
Read MoreHannah Estabrook is a clinician specializing in direct service provision to human trafficking survivors and the Executive Director of Sanctuary Collective. Previously she served as the CATCH Court Coordinator (Franklin County Municipal Courts) and is co-author of Beyond Desolate: Hope vs. Hate in the Rubble of Sexual Abuse.
Read MoreYvonne Zimmerman is Associate Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She researches the roles of religion in the antitrafficking movement. She is the author of Other Dreams of Freedom: Religion, Sex, and Human Trafficking (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Read MoreVipin Vijay Nair is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences at O.P. Jindal Global University. He has been practicing research in the rehabilitation of victims of commercial sexual exploitation in India for more than three years.
Read MoreMs. Karolina Talikowski has 16 years’ experience in child protection and education as a Senior Counselling Psychologist and Residential Care & Consultant Psychologist. She has a clinical private practice, specializing in complex mental health and trauma, including PTSD, depression, and child abuse. She has conducted children and youth trauma trainings in Vietnam and worked with children in Myanmar.
Read MoreMs. Tran Thi Thu Ha is the Deputy Director of the Research and Training Centre for Community Development (RTCCD) in Vietnam and has 24 years’ experience of maternal and child health work. Since 2003, she has been a consultant for the Global Fund, World Bank, Health Policy Initiatives USAID, WHO, UNFPA, UNDP, and has been an invited speaker on national television and radio.
Read MoreMr. Luke Talikowski has 30 years’ experience of child protection work in Australia, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Since 2007, he has been the Senior International Social Work Consultant for Health Right International (HRI), working with individuals who are abused, marginalized, affected, and infected by HIV/AIDS as well as exploited children and youth.
Read MoreVijay Raghavan is a Professor with the Centre for Criminology and Justice (CCJ) in the School of Social Work at TISS in Mumbai, India. He also co-leads Prayas, a field action project of the CCJ, engaging with issues of protection of legal rights and social re-entry of prisoners and women rescued from commercial sexual exploitation.
Read MoreSharon Menezes is Assistant Professor with the Centre for Criminology and Justice (CCJ) in the School of Social Work at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India. She co-leads Prayas, a field action project of the CCJ, engaging with issues of violence, rehabilitation and social reintegration of criminal justice affected populations.
Read MoreChris Croft is the Prevention Education Program Manager for the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), providing statewide violence prevention training and technical assistance. Croft’s current work brings together lived experience, years of direct service and community-based consent and prevention education work, and graduate study.
Read MoreMarissa Castellanos is the Program Director of the Bakhita Empowerment Initiative, a program that supports and empowers survivors of human trafficking through Catholic Charities of Louisville. Marissa co-authored the Guiding Principles for Agencies Serving Survivors of Human Trafficking and has co-trained on the Guiding Principles in Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas.
Read MoreBethany Gilot is a National Consultant on anti-human trafficking initiatives from training and program development to state/federal policy. Bethany has a decade of experience working in the anti-trafficking field both domestically and internationally. This experience spans a range of roles including direct service, program administration, and state level policy positions.
Read MoreTheresa Flores is a licensed Social Worker with a Master’s in Counseling Education. She has published 5 books on trafficking and is a best-selling author. The “Theresa Flores Law” in Michigan eliminates the statute of limitation for minors who have been trafficked and want to prosecute their traffickers.
Read MoreFaith Tunde-Yara is an enthusiastic legal researcher with over 7 years of research in Human Rights and Criminal Law. She is a current PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, conducting research on the Illegal Organ trade in Africa with a focus on the obtainable variations of organ trafficking in Africa.
Read MoreOraLee Macklenar has more than 20 years’ experience in mental health. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and currently supervises the Mercy Health Toledo Trauma Recovery Center. She works with a team that provides victim advocacy, psychological therapy, and clinical case management to victims of crime and their family members.
Read MoreChuck Campbell is the co-chair of the Education Committee of the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition. He has served as a parish pastor for over 40 years. Throughout his life, he has been committed to social justice causes, having served on numerous non-profit boards in the greater Toledo, Ohio area.
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