Dr. Susan Foster is the Department Chair of the Online Counselor Education Department at The Chicago School and an LPC in Louisiana. She provides counseling, teaching, and supervision in a variety of settings including higher education, K-12 education, community mental health, and private practice, specializing in complex trauma and human trafficking.
Read MoreDr. Kristen Eldredge is an Associate Faculty in the Online Counselor Education department of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and the co-lead of the program’s curriculum development team. As an LPC in Colorado, she provides counseling and clinical supervision in the areas of complex trauma, including human trafficking.
Read MoreSean Moreman has been practicing media law for nearly two decades and has argued questions of freedom of expression and freedom of the press at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Communication and Culture exploring the Right to be Forgotten in Canada.
Read MoreTimothy Sawa has been an investigative journalist and TV producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for more than 25 years. Much of his work has focused on exposing sexual predators along with the systems that protect and enable them, including Canada’s most prolific accused sexual trafficker, Peter Nygard.
Read MoreRebekkah O’Bryan serves as the Anti-Trafficking Grant Coordinator at the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal Justice Services where she coordinates a statewide initiative to improve outcomes for justice-involved youth trafficking survivors. Prior, Ms. O’Bryan served in roles providing direct services to minor and adult survivors of trafficking.
Read MoreChelsea Gaffey serves as the Human Trafficking Liaison for the Ohio Department of Youth Services. Ms. Gaffey has 10 years of professional experience in the anti-human trafficking field. Her professional experience includes both domestic and international work, as well as direct service, providing technical assistance, program management, and advocacy work.
Read MoreSarbinaz Bekmuratova has led research studies focusing on occupational therapists’ role in human trafficking (HT), vulnerabilities of youth with disabilities and racial minority youth, exploring ways to disrupt illicit HT supply networks in Kyrgyzstan, and most recently evaluating the impact of educational program on occupational therapy students’ HT knowledge and self-efficacy.
Read MoreNikki Locklear has worked for 14+ years in victim advocacy. She has managed state and federally funded grants geared toward providing culturally congruent services to Native American. She is currently the Director of the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault/Human Trafficking Program for the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs.
Read MoreKiricka Yarbough Smith is the Human Trafficking Program Director at the North Carolina Council for Women and Youth Involvement where she co-leads the “Strengthen the Response to Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities” project. She has 20+ years of experience addressing human trafficking at its intersections with other issues.
Read MoreMr. Elda Nduka Okolo-Obasi has his Master’s in Development Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a doctoral candidate and research fellow in the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria and also a research fellow in the Development Strategy Centre, a private think tank, based in Enugu, Nigeria.
Read MoreDr. Joseph Ikechukwu Uduji is an Associate Professor and currently the Head of the Department of Marketing, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. While he lectures business and development courses in the University of Nigeria, he is also a Visiting Professor to the Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda. His current research interests include social justice, social responsibility, and inequality nexus in developing countries.
Read MoreHeather Sloane is an associate professor in the social work program at UToledo. She is the creator/facilitator of Fearless Writers, which nurtures connection through creative writing between interprofessional/ interdisciplinary university mentors and Toledo Public High School students. This program attempts to counter consequences of neighborhood segregation in the United States.
Read MoreMatt Foss is an associate professor in the theatre program at University of Toledo. His adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front received a Kennedy Center playwriting award. Foss won the 2020 University of Toledo Edith Rathburn Outreach and Engagement Excellence Award. Foss co-wrote Sons of Toledo.
Read MoreCarolyn Kinkoph is a human trafficking survivor parent and co-founder of the proposed Lake County Collaborative to End Human Trafficking. Her coalition includes local, county, state, and federal agencies, plus non-government partners who encompass a multidisciplinary team. She is passionate about providing human trafficking education to diverse audiences.
Read MoreAs a survivor of familial trafficking, Crystal Bennett has provided training, coaching, and consultation across the nation on human trafficking, trauma, and social justice. Currently, she is the Executive Director of The Lantern Project, where she leads the work to end sexual exploitation by changing culture through prevention, intervention, and transformation.
Read MoreDr. Jennifer Cole is a research associate professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Cole was Principal Investigator of an NIJ-funded project (2015-2018) examining the impact of Kentucky’s safe harbor law. Her primary research interests are the intersection of interpersonal victimization and substance as well as community responses to these complex social problems.
Read MorePallavi Garg is the Criminal Law Supervising Attorney at Free to Thrive. Pallavi began her legal career as a prosecutor at the Miami Dade State Attorney’s Office. She was in the Human Trafficking Task Force in Miami and now provides criminal legal and policy support to survivors.
Read MoreJamie Beck is the President and Managing Attorney of Free to Thrive, a nonprofit organization that provides legal services and additional support to human trafficking survivors. Jamie began her law career as a judicial law clerk. She then practiced civil litigation for five years before launching Free to Thrive.
Read MoreTanesha Williams is an MSW student at the University of Toledo and commutes to class from Columbus, Ohio. Tanesha has experience working with addiction recovery.
Read MoreDuvonna Goins is an MSW student at the University of Toledo. She comes to Toledo from Baltimore and enjoys working with kids K-12. She has an undergraduate degree in criminal justice.
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