Kristina Smith is a first responder and the Louisville Metro Human Trafficking Task Force Co-Chair and a member of Kentucky Attorney General Office’s Survivors Council. She is founder of SWOP-KENTUCKY and identifies as a former sex worker and trafficking survivor who has lobbied in Washington, DC for sex worker rights following SESTA-FOSTA.
Read MoreElise Reifschneider is Program Director of the Human Trafficking Unit at the Denver District Attorney's Office and Director of the Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance. In 2018, Elise received a Governor-appointment to serve as member of the Colorado Human Trafficking Council and is a member of the Labor Trafficking Task Force.
Read MoreElaine Fisher is manager of training and supervision at Community Reach Center, a top-tier behavioral health provider serving the north Denver metro in Colorado. She is co-chair of the Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance Mental Health Subcommittee and is dedicated to trauma informed work and quality systems improvement.
Read MoreDr. Kristy Eldredge is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Denver, Colorado where she works with adult survivors of complex trauma and human trafficking. She is co-chair of the Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance Mental Health Subcommittee. She is also an Associate Professor in a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master’s degree program.
Read MoreR. Marie Dutra Gross is a doctoral student in the Global Family Health and Wellbeing program at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She has a master’s degree in Education. Her 20-year career as a teacher of English began in Brazil. Now, she conducts research on Brazilian domestic human trafficking.
Read MoreErin Albright is a Visiting Fellow with the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime. Her work focuses on building capacity for better collaboration and increased identification of labor trafficking. Previously, she served as the Director of the NH Human Trafficking Collaborative Task Force.
Read MoreDr. Jill McCracken is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida and the Co-Founder/Co-Director of Sex Workers Outreach Program Behind Bars, an organization that provides community support for incarcerated sex workers and connects them within U.S. prisons to the sex-worker rights movement.
Read MoreRita O’Brien is a survivor and educator in the field of sex trafficking. Rita was trafficked in rural communities by a secret society out of her own bedroom from 3-13. Professionally, she has done law enforcement and security. Rita is a Board member of Pearls of Great Price Coalition.
Read MoreMartin Laird is Senior Manager for Social Responsibility at IBM and is a global leader for strategic partnerships and thought leader on a diverse portfolio of “good tech” solutions offered to citizens and community partners through IBM’s philanthropic initiatives. Martin has eighteen years of experience in Philanthropy, Sales, and Media Relations.
Read MoreDr. Glenn Abraham has 25 years of experience as a social worker in corrections. Upon retirement, he earned his PhD and has been teaching social work for the past 9 years. He is currently an assistant professor at Ohio University’s Southern Campus.
Read MoreDr. Michel Coconis has taught social work for 25 years and practiced social work, primarily in criminal justice settings with offenders and victims, for nearly 33 years. She has studied prostitution and violence against women, and her current research includes patient brokering in substance abuse treatment.
Read MoreDr. Terry Cluse-Tolar has been a social work educator for 25 years and has over 15 years of experience practicing social work. She has studied human trafficking and her current research interest is in the area of patient brokering in substance use treatment and its relationship to trafficking.
Read MoreDr. Annie Miller leads Collaborative Management Consulting and is an Assistant Professor at Washburn University. She is a board member at the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. Annie holds a Master’s in Higher Education Administration, a Master’s in Political Science, and a doctorate in Public Affairs from the University of Colorado.
Read MoreKara Napolitano holds a Master’s in International Development from the University of Denver. She spent eight years working and volunteering in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, working mostly with education-based NGOs in post-conflict areas. She has worked for Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking for four years.
Read MoreMandi Pierson counsels individuals suffering from trauma and addiction. She specializes in vulnerable populations with complex trauma, focusing on victims of human trafficking. Her seasoned experience led her to become one of Central Ohio’s leading experts on trauma; her clinical perspective is regularly requested for identifying best practices and creating trauma-informed environments.
Read MoreDr. Jesse Bach is an educational researcher specializing in anti-trafficking efforts. His research interests include forced labor, gang membership, and state sanctioned slavery.
Read MoreCindy Stotler is the Housing Director for the City of Phoenix. Phoenix's Housing Department provides services to more than 30,000 residents. Stotler oversees both public and affordable housing, housing vouchers and social services as well as property management and maintenance, loan servicing and federal grant accounting and compliance.
Read MoreKimberly Hogan is a Research Project Director at the Arizona State University Office of Sex Trafficking Research and a PhD Student in the School of Social Work.
Read MoreDr. Cody Hollist is an Associate Professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research concentrates on Latino adolescents’ use of mental health services and their family resilience. He is currently working on a longitudinal project in Brazil looking at family resilience.
Read MoreJessie Peter is a doctoral student in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on marginalized populations, family communication, parenting, inter-generational trafficking, family resilience, moral development and future directions for children of women forced into street-level prostitution in India.
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