Dani Mills, MSCJ

Dani Mills is the Director of Community Outreach and Strategic Partnerships with Our Place Peel. Dani’s oversees nCourage – Anti-Human Trafficking Integrated Service Hub, and Outreach (Housing, Natural Supports). Dani coordinates partnerships and pathways to increase access to supports for victims/ survivors, individuals at-risk of human sex trafficking, and youth homelessness.

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Wendy Stiver, RN, CCM, BSN, MA

Wendy Stiver is a registered nurse with over 40 years of clinical and leadership experience. She has published on human trafficking, domestic violence, implicit bias, and impairment in the workplace among other topics in the healthcare field. She is a Research Scholar in GAHTS.

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Jarrett Davis, MA

Jarrett Davis, a researcher, advocate, and founder of the up! Collective with over 15 years of experience, specializes in the rights of children and vulnerable groups. His work focuses on designing and evaluating evidence-based research and programming for children who have experienced sexual exploitation and violence. He is a Senior Research Scholar in GAHTS.

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Carolyn M. Kinkoph, MBA

Carolyn Kinkoph is a human trafficking survivor parent and co-founder of the non-profit Alliance Against Human Trafficking 501(c)(3). 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.

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Lauren Morosky, MA, LSC K-12

Lauren Morosky is the Manager of Content Development & Community Programs for Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX), the national non-profit authority on girls. She is a licensed school counselor and girl expert who regularly delivers trainings and workshops focused on ROX research and best-practices for supporting and empowering girls.

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Tara Wallace

Tara Wallace, a Data Analyst with Restoring Ivy Collective, has a background in Financial Technologies (FINTech), strategic management, academic research, and project management. Tara is passionate about the importance of incorporating the voices and perspectives of those with lived experience in data-driven solutions-based approaches to combating commercial sexual exploitation.

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Liz Kimbel

Liz Kimbel, Virtual & Outreach Director at The Restoring Ivy Collective, is dedicated to supporting and empowering survivors. Liz specializes in re-entry, as well as virtual community management. She utilizes yoga, social-emotional arts, and addiction and behavior recovery.  Liz's background is in program development and facilitation, advocacy, public relations, and training.

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Dave Clark, MPOL

Dave Clark is a detective with the Dallas Police Department and has been assigned to the Child Exploitation Unit for fourteen years. He is responsible for the investigation of cases involving sexual crimes committed against children. He has interviewed over 500 juvenile victims of child abuse and has interrogated hundreds of suspects accused of sexually abusing children.

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Heather Evans, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Heather Evans is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a counseling practice in Pennsylvania. She has over 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.

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Kirsten Byrnes, PsyD, ABPP

Kirsten Byrnes is a licensed board certified clinical and forensic psychologist. She is the Director of Clinical Research and Training at POETIC. In addition to clinical practice, she is an active professor and educator who has conducted research on maltreatment, trafficking, trauma, grooming, and other forensic issues.

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Busisiwe Nkosi

Busisiwe Nkosi has a social science background and has worked with women and children affected by family and domestic abuse in South Africa. Her interests includes tension in the ethical and legal frameworks in service provision for abused women and children. Busisiwe is currently a Master of Social Work student at The University of Toledo.

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Conner McDaniel

Conner McDaniel is set to graduate in August 2024 with her Masters of Social Work from Middle Tennessee State University. She has found a passion in holding space for individuals involved in the sex trade to be heard, respected, and empowered. She has worked at the Oldest Profession Podcast since Summer of 2023.

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Alex Andrews

Alex Andrews, Co-Founder of SWOP Behind Bars, is a sex worker and survivor of exploitation, sexual assault, and domestic violence who advocates for incarcerated individuals. She fights against stigma by sharing her own story of the cycle of violence perpetuated by myths and misconceptions about the intersections of sex work and trafficking.

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Melanie Dante, MA

With thirty years of industry exposure, Melanie Dante is federally defined as a youth survivor, former adult worker, and here as a THRIVER! Completing undergrad and graduate studies as an adult, she easily understood connections between domestic violence, homelessness, survival sex, and sex work, most recently assisting the SBB case management program.

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Logan Knight, MA, MSW

Logan Knight is an assistant professor at the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. As a survivor-researcher-advocate, she seeks to promote socially just, inclusive, and equitable research with survivors. Logan’s research interests include resilience and posttraumatic growth, and community-based and spiritual interventions for human trafficking.

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Mac Morrison, LMHC, MAT

Mac Morrison is a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in New Mexico. In her work over the past 20 years, Mac has done trauma-informed counseling with indigenous trafficking survivors. She has worked extensively with persons of the 23 recognized tribal nations in the state and also persons from many tribal nations in North America.

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Lynda Harlos

Lynda Harlos, the visionary behind Parent With Purpose, serves as a dedicated Sex Trafficking & Abuse Prevention Educator. In addition to hosting regular workshops through her platform, she has delivered impactful presentations for esteemed organizations like Shared Hope, Victim Service, We’re Here for You Canada, and Courage for Freedom, among others.

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Micaela Cayton Garrido, MA

Micaela Cayton Garrido is an advocacy professional with over 20 years of experience working in various public interest issues, with a focus on international criminal and humanitarian law and human rights. Since 2019, she has been teaching in the Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago.

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