Heather Sloane is an associate professor in the social work program at the University of Toledo. She is a member of the interprofessional faculty and works with other scholars at the University of Toledo on Social Determinants of Health pedagogy.
Read MoreNili Gesser is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. She received her LLB (JD) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and LLM from Bar-Ilan University. She is a former prosecutor and a victim advocate. Her research interests center on prostitution, therapeutic jurisprudence, and victimology.
Read MoreLaura Fazio-Griffith is an Associate Professor of Counseling. She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and is the past-president of the Louisiana Play Therapy Association. She regularly presents on the use of play therapy in counseling.
Read MoreReshelle Marino is an Associate Professor of Counseling. She was appointed three years ago by the Governor of Louisiana to serve as a member of the Advisory Board for the Prevention of Human Trafficking and continues to collaborate on state reports for the prevention of human trafficking of minors.
Read MoreMelanie Goodman Dante is known for critical writing, commentary, and communication workshops. She is also popular for esoteric creative nonfiction and poetry. Active since 2003 for discussion on sex for survival work and trafficking, she has been writing on the topic since the early 1990s, supporting programs essential to empowerment, health, and human rights.
Read MoreThirty-five years in the sex industry offered Bella Robinson the ability to understand changing perspectives that, in 2009, influenced her stepping out into activism and advocacy. By 2014, she was collaborating with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and the Brown University Human Trafficking and Research Cluster.
Read MoreAnna E. Kosloski is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research specialization is centered on sexual violence and the intersection of race, gender, and social class.
Read MoreCarmen O’Leary is the Director of Native Women’s Society, a tribal coalition of sexual assault and domestic violence programs in the Great Plains region. Her work has been based on safety for native women and their children in various capacities.
Read MoreBridget Diamond-Welch is the Associate Director of the Center for Rural Health Improvement and an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. Her research specialization is on sexualized violence and human trafficking, specifically in terms of system response.
Read MoreShamin Brown, owner of Shamin Brown Consulting and author of “I’m An Addict In Bits And Pieces”, has worked with youth and adult survivors of prostitution and survivor-serving organizations for 15+ years. She provides coaching, consultation, education, and programming in the area of sexual exploitation and recovery from sex trafficking.
Read MoreTisidra Jones acquired her JD from the University of St. Thomas School of Law and is licensed to practice law in New York and Minnesota. She has focused her career on advancing equal economic opportunity and access. Tisidra has received multiple awards for her efforts to create inclusive systems.
Read MoreDr. Artika Tyner is a passionate educator, author, sought-after speaker, and advocate for justice. Tyner serves as the founding director of the Center for Race, Leadership, and Social Justice and is a law professor. She is committed to training students to serve as social engineers who create new inroads to justice and freedom.
Read MoreDr. Jennifer Middleton is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville and directs the UofL Human Trafficking Research Initiative. She examines the impact of trauma-informed organizational change interventions within systems of care that serve sex trafficked populations. During her forensic social work career, Dr. Middleton worked with sexually exploited and trafficked children.
Read MoreEmily Edwards is a Research Associate at the University of Louisville’s School of Public Health and Information Sciences and a recent graduate of the Counseling Psychology program. Emily’s work centers around the prevention of child trafficking and youth violence.
Read MoreAngie Conn is the Founder of SheWhoDares, LLC. She knows it’s an honor to be present in sacred space with other survivors. Her vision is to continue creating sacred spaces so that survivors can fully thrive. She is currently in the process of becoming certified as a Yoga Therapist specializing in healing trauma modalities.
Read MoreRachel Thomas is a graduate of UCLA with a Master’s in Education and a personal survivor of human trafficking. She has extensive experience teaching, training, curriculum writing, public speaking, and mentoring. She is the founder of Sowers Education Group and the lead author of Ending The Game and The Cool Aunt.
Read MoreClaudia Letsie is currently working as a labor inspector in the Ministry of Labor and Employment of Lesotho. She is working towards the eradication of child labor and trafficking and the re- adaptation of the survivors. Letsie seeks to put place mechanisms to eliminate child labor, trafficking, and forced marriage of children in Lesotho.
Read MoreBandak Lul is a project manager at Arizona State University Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (ASU STIR) and a support faculty at ASU New College in the Social Justice and Human Rights department. He has worked on several research projects exploring characteristics and patterns of human trafficking in the U.S.
Read MoreDr. Rochelle L. Dalla is a Professor in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research addresses familial relationships and developmental trajectories of sex trafficking survivors in India and the USA. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Human Trafficking.
Read MoreAnna Forringer-Beal is a second year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge Centre for Multidisciplinary Gender Studies. Her work focuses on how the Modern Slavery Act of 2015 came into law. This project takes her back to the white slavery campaigns of the early twentieth century and through to contemporary anti-trafficking policy.
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