Ena Lucia Mariaca is a trauma-informed professional in human security, with a master’s specialization in male survivors of child sexual abuse and human trafficking for sexual exploitation. She has worked with the Government of Canada, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations on anti-trafficking advocacy work, database casework, and global projects.
Read MoreSteven Procopio is a licensed independent clinical social worker with a specialty in male sexual victimization, which includes childhood sexual abuse, male rape, and sex trafficking. Steven founded the first free-standing program for boys and young men who were victimized by sex trafficking in the United States.
Read MoreShana Judge is the founder and Executive Director of Duddon Evidence to Policy Research, a law and social science consulting business specializing in data-centered research services. Dr. Judge has served as principal investigator for grant-funded projects analyzing sex trafficking and associated policy outcomes and has published several related peer-reviewed studies.
Read MoreAnne LaFrinier-Ritchie has been working in the anti-trafficking field as a regional navigator in Minnesota and North Dakota since 2016. She is a graduate of NHTTAC’s Human Trafficking Leadership Academy. She has partnered with tribal communities for the past decade in various roles. Anne is a member of local and national tribal boards.
Read MoreRita O'Brien is a survivor and educator in the field of sex trafficking. Rita is a Board Member for Pearls of Great Price and Kalamazoo Area Anti Human Trafficking Coalition. Rita has her LLMSW in Social Work with a focus on trauma. Rita speaks out to get people to listen.
Read MoreJeanne Allert has a 15-year history of providing long-term restorative care for sex trafficking victims nationally. She created the Institute for Shelter Care, which conducts industry research and leverages the expertise of the Institute and industry peers across the country to train and mentor new shelter programs in areas of greatest need.
Read MoreCheri Mays completed a correlational, cross-sectional study on Early Career Mental Health Professionals’ Preparedness to Counsel Survivors of Sex Trafficking. She has provided pro bono counseling to survivors of sex trafficking. She is a counselor educator with a background in treating child and adult trauma for over 20 years.
Read MoreDr. Wendi Ehrman is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Co-Director of the Healthcare Collaborative Against Sex Trafficking (HCAST). She has worked with high-risk youth for over 25 years and participated in multiple projects focused on early identification and treatment of sexually exploited youth.
Read MoreDr. Angela Rabbitt is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Co-Director of the Healthcare Collaborative Against Sex Trafficking (HCAST). She has led multidisciplinary initiatives to improve responses to sex trafficking and to prevent violence and exploitation of vulnerable populations at the local, state, and national level.
Read MoreLieutenant John Pizzuro just recently retired as the Internet Crimes Against Children Commander. John is self-employed as a consultant and speaker. He created framework for other countries to investigate CSAM and child trafficking. John speaks frequently regarding online grooming, child exploitation, and child trafficking based on his investigations and experience.
Read MoreJarrett Davis is a social researcher and consultant with up! International. Since 2009, he’s done research with children and uniquely vulnerable people in Southeast Asia, often at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality. His previous work explores topics of street-involved children sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and child development.
Read MoreGlenn Miles is a Senior Researcher with up! International. For 25 years, he’s led INGOs and facilitated research listening to survivors of sexual exploitation, including men, women, boys, girls, and transgender people, as well as research with sex buyers. Glenn teaches graduate and PhD candidates, provides supervision, and advises the Butterfly Longitudinal Research Project (Chab Dai).
Read MoreCandace Buggs is an educational consultant with TiER1 Performance and a PhD Candidate in Instructional Design at Indiana University. She received her Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction and has designed varied learning solutions for businesses, nonprofits, and higher education. Candace’s focus and passion is to understand how life experience affects learning.
Read MoreJessica Samuel has worked 12+ years in the field of online and blended education on a wide range of innovative projects. She has built and led development teams and initiatives across private and public sectors. She now leads Justice U, an initiative aimed at providing critical education about human trafficking.
Read MoreBrittany Thomas has worked in the fields of social justice and training development for 13+ years. She works at the intersections of family violence, substance use, human trafficking, mental health, criminal justice involvement, child welfare, and underserved populations. Her passion is practicing social change in the workplace.
Read MoreTolulope Balogun is a lecturer at the University of Western Cape. She held her postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families, and Society with a focus on family social cohesion. She has been on the Trafficking-in-Person (TIP) project team in Cape Town.
Read MoreAnnah Bender is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Faculty Affiliate in the Gender Studies Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focuses on intimate partner violence across the life course and the associations of mental health and substance abuse among survivors.
Read MoreErica Koegler is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri- St. Louis in the School of Social Work. Her research examines human trafficking in the American Midwest and in the Western Cape, South Africa. Her PhD is in public health and her master's in social work.
Read MoreRumi Kato Price is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. She is a founder of the Human Trafficking Collaborative Network. Her expertise includes epidemiology, methodology, classification system, and trauma spectrum disorders. Dr. Price’s PhD is from University of California at Berkeley.
Read MoreMiriam Cobb is founder and director at Empty Frames Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to empowering orphaned and vulnerable youth as they transition out of state care. Miriam served on the North Carolina Coalition Against Human Trafficking BOD in 2019 and helped with JusticeU's NC Specific CSEC Prevention curriculum in 2021 as a subject matter expert.
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