Dr. Stephen Morse is a contemporary expert in modern slavery intervention and CEO of Unchained Solutions Pty Limited based Australia. Stephen consults with business leaders on addressing the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains and operations to comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth).
Read MoreAnneke Lucas is an author, public speaker, and a counselor for survivors. Her work is based on personal experience of a 30-year healing journey after surviving being sold by her family as a child sex slave to a pedophile network, which shaped her message for personal and global healing.
Read MoreDr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is an Associate Professor at ASU School of Social Work and the Director of the ASU Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz leads a robust set of research, practice, and training activities including projects funded by DOJ OVC, National Science Foundation, and private foundations.
Read MoreDr. Kimberly Hogan is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Social Work. In 2022, she co-founded the USM Center for Human Trafficking Research and Training (CHRT). Her research work spans the prevention, detection, identification, and treatment of minor and adult sex trafficking victims.
Read MoreMeg Kraner has utilized art-based therapy methods with clients for 5 years, with a specific focus on Narrative Therapy (NT) techniques. Meg has used NT with various client populations, as well as within her own therapeutic journey, and highly values the art of healing through therapeutic storytelling and community connection.
Read MoreRosie Best combines her diverse training and knowledge of theatre, therapy, and social justice to create spaces for marginalized individuals to reclaim authority and autonomy over their stories and their experiences. Through her organization, Issue Box Theatre, Rosie provides community education on topics related to mental health and social justice
Read MoreChristina Presenti has a deep dedication to empowering victims of violence. She is currently the Membership Manager at the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She held positions at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the New Hampshire Coalition of Domestic and Sexual Violence, and Bridges, her local crisis center.
Read MoreAngelita Olowu is a Forensic Nursing Specialist with the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). She provides training and technical assistance on the care of survivors of interpersonal violence. Angelita teaches Indian Health Service and IAFN Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner didactic and clinical courses and provides education statewide and nationally.
Read MoreBeth Bowman is an Assistant Social Work Professor at Gallaudet University. She is also a minor domestic sex trafficking survivor, anti-trafficking advocate, mother, researcher, and speaker. In clinical practice, she works with trafficking survivors and other populations using trauma-informed yoga therapy.
Read MoreDr. Lois Lee is the world’s leading expert in rescuing child sex trafficking victims. She is frequently a keynote speaker for national and international organizations. She is the founder and President of Children of the Night. In 1973, Lee wrote “The Pimp and His Game,” the basis of her trainings of thousands of members of law enforcement and her expert testimony in state and federal courts.
Read MoreMolly McDade is the Jail Human Trafficking Sergeant at the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. She documents trends and tattoos and discusses relationships with suspected traffickers and victims of sex trafficking. She assists in gathering evidence and partners with academia in research, which helps indict and prosecute individuals who commercially sexually exploit victims.
Read MoreKaitlin Meadows is a Research Project Coordinator at Arizona State University’s Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research in the School of Social Work. She has a Master’s in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and her research focus is on the prevention and detection of sex trafficking through a trauma-informed lens.
Read MoreMelissa Kaiser has been a licensed social worker for eleven years. Melissa is certified in compassion fatigue and secondary trauma with six years of experience in training, consultation, and support to her team members. She is a TEND trainer, providing trainings throughout North Dakota and the U.S. and assisted in creating secondary trauma and compassion fatigue programming for North Dakota service providers and first responders.
Read MoreDr. Heather Evans is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a counseling practice in Pennsylvania, with 20 years’ experience, specializing in sexual trauma. Heather has authored two books from her research on complex trauma and posttraumatic growth in sex trafficking survivors. She is Co-Founder of Valley Against Sex Trafficking.
Read MoreKai Zen Bickle played a critical role in the investigation of his father, an accused super-predator of great financial means and power. Kai discovered loopholes within the justice system and works with CHILD USA on reforms to correct these loopholes that enabled his father to hide his behavior for decades.
Read MoreProfessor Marci Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of CHILD USA, the leading national think tank fighting for the civil rights of children. CHILD USA’s mission is to employ in-depth legal analysis and cutting-edge social science research to protect children, prevent future abuse and neglect, and bring justice to survivors.
Read MoreEzgi Yaman Kennedy is currently working as an Individual Consultant with the CoE and UNFPA in Turkey. She has been working for 10 years in the field as a qualified social worker and academician. She holds a PhD degree and an award for the protection of children from trafficking, granted by the Child 10.
Read MoreDr. Charles Hounmenou is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). His main research area is human trafficking. In 2020, Hounmenou received the UIC’s Rising Star Award in Social Sciences Research. In 2018, he received the IHTSJC Influential Scholar Award for his work on human trafficking and social justice issues.
Read MoreNicole McAmis is an Emergency Medicine Resident at Stanford Health Care (PGY-2). She attended medical school at Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University. She is passionate about social emergency medicine and hopes that her current research will bring change to the field. Dr. McAmis has expertise in human trafficking after working tirelessly to help understand the lack of knowledge amongst all healthcare workers.
Read MoreFaith Tunde-Yara is an enthusiastic legal researcher with over 7 years of research in human trafficking and criminal law. She is a current PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, conducting research on the Illegal Organ Trade in Africa focusing on obtainable variations and legislative loopholes in the Organ Trafficking Framework.
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