Captain Noel Roberts has been with the Las Vegas Police Department for 24 years. He has worked assignments including Patrol, Field Training, and Problem-Solving unit. He worked as a detective in the Vice, Narcotics, and Criminal Intelligence Organized Crime sections. As VICE Unit Lieutenant, he oversaw the Southern Nevada HT Task Force.
Read MoreDr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is an Associate Professor, Director of Arizona State University’s Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research, and Clinical Director at Phoenix Starfish Place. Her research work is on human trafficking with a focus on interventions for victims. Research includes innovative interventions including a psychoeducation group, outreach activities, and non-arrest policing activities.
Read MoreCarolyn Kinkoph is a human trafficking survivor parent and co-founder of the Alliance Against Human Trafficking. Her coalition includes local, county, state, and federal agencies, plus non- government partners who encompass a multidisciplinary team. She is passionate about individually and collectively providing human trafficking education to diverse audiences.
Read MoreDr. Jami Flick conducted her dissertation study with lived experience experts in the movement. She’s a Developing Scholar with Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars and member of HEAL Trafficking and the National Human Trafficking and Disability Working Group. Dr. Flick has presented about occupational therapy and anti- exploitation since 2016.
Read MoreHannah Helms is a Mental Health Provider at CARES Northwest in Oregon where she works with children who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation. She serves on the Washington County Human Trafficking Task Force and provides human trafficking education to frontline responders and medical professionals in rural and urban settings.
Read MoreDr. Adebimpe Adewusi is a Nigerian born, Texas raised child abuse pediatrician. She is currently the medical director at CARES Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She is a state/national expert on sex trafficking, who sits on Oregon’s Attorney General’s Trafficking Intervention Committee and serves as co-chair for Helfer Society’s Human Trafficking Subcommittee.
Read MoreDr. Marina Duishenkulova is an assistant in the Department of Public Health at the International Higher School of Medicine, Kyrgyzstan. Her main area of research is public health, prevention of labor slavery, and the influence of socio-economic factors on public health.
Read MoreDr. Baktygul Imankulova is an Instructor in the Department of Public Health at the International Higher School of Medicine, Kyrgyzstan. She lectures on "Communicating for health" and "Raising awareness of health promotion".
Read MoreDr. Sarbinaz Bekmuratova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Creighton University. The primary area of her research focuses on human trafficking prevention among youth and other vulnerable populations and exploring the intersection of human trafficking and occupational therapy.
Read MoreAlicia Cohen is a familial exploitation survivor and compassionate educator specializing in early identification and behavioral intervention of children receiving Special Education services. In 2019, she established SAFE (Survivors of Familial Exploitation) to close the gap in available research surrounding familial exploitation and develop survivor-informed resources for direct service providers.
Read MoreBrenna Wallace is the founder of A Lady with Lilies Society and a survivor of human trafficking and non-state torture. She is diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Her past presentations include: We are the Forgotten, Developmental Disabilities and Sex Trafficking How they Coincide, The Complex Needs of Families with Sexually Assaulted Children, and Resilience in the Dark.
Read MoreGinger Shaw is the President and Executive Director of California Against Slavery. Ginger has served as Vice Chair of the San Diego Human Trafficking/CSEC Advisory Council and on the San Diego County District Attorney’s Crime Victim & Survivors Advisory Board. She received an honorary doctorate from California State University San Marcos for her dedication to end human trafficking.
Read MoreCatherine Johnson is the COO of Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. Catherine manages overall operations for Caravan Studios and its key programs, including developing partnerships and implementing key programs. Previously, Catherine worked in the nonprofit and public sectors where she managed department-level operations, budgets, and strategic initiatives.
Read MoreSarah Washburn is the Director of Community Experience at Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. Sarah leads their participatory design process that informs how her team learns and advocates for technology designs that honor the experiences, struggles, and triumphs of the communities with whom they collaborate. Previously, she worked with the Gates Foundation, IBM, and Boeing.
Read MoreAwah Francisca Mbuli is a survivor of sex and labor trafficking. She is the founder of Survivors’ Network (SN), a Cameroonian based, female survivor led NGO that fights against all forms of human trafficking. SN rescues and provides temporary housing, psychosocial services, vocational training, and economic empowerment programs to victims of human trafficking and internally displaced women. She advocates both with governments and the general population.
Read MoreSamantha MacNeill is a Registered Nurse and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with 23 years of experience working with victims, survivors, and individuals at-risk of sex trafficking. She is also the Advisor of the Region’s Peel Anti-Human Sex Trafficking Strategy and provides clinical training on sex trafficking to health care providers.
Read MoreConstable Joy Brown has been with Peel Regional Police Service since 1987 and is with Community Mobilization. She works directly with victims/ survivors and with community partners to support those at risk. She also chairs the Peel Human Trafficking Service Providers Committee, addressing needs and providing community education around human trafficking.
Read MoreAlicia Boothe supervises the Youth Success 16+ team at the Peel Children’s Aid Society. This includes youth involved in or at risk of human trafficking. She also Co-Chairs the agency’s Anti-Human Trafficking Committee and is a member of the Peel Human Trafficking Service Providers Committee and Provincial Child Welfare HT Roundtable.
Read MoreArathi Packiyanathan has been a Child Protection Worker at Peel Children’s Aid Society for 8 years managing high risk/profile cases which include families involved in, or at risk of being involved in human trafficking. She works directly with children, parents, and traffickers. Arathi also Co-Chairs the agency’s Anti-Human Trafficking Committee.
Read MoreKathleen Arnold has over a decade of experience in adult and child trafficking residential services, program development, and nonprofit management. She opened a safe home for teen survivors. She has worked with numerous Lived Experience Experts in a variety of capacities, including program development, policy advocacy, and hiring consultants for speaking events.
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