Steve Feazel is a retired pastor who now writes and produces films on Christian and social issues. Three of his films have won awards at film festivals.
Read MoreNamed 1 of the top 25 most influential women in the Bronx, Rev. Que English passion is to empower, train and educate houses of worship to serve as community bridge-builders and to establish strategic partnerships in their communities. She chairs the NYC Faith-Based Coalition Against Human Trafficking & Domestic Violence working collaboratively with government, community-based orgs, city agencies, grassroot orgs, and service providers to be effective safe havens for victims and survivors
Read MoreLibby is a director of narrative and documentary work. She has over 15 years producing and directing critically-acclaimed films that can be seen around the world. Her film Playground, produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, with animation by Yoshitomo Nara, looks at the epidemic of young children being forced into prostitution in the US.
Read MoreS.C. Doran, MSW, lengthy and varied background in social justice activism. Masters focus on Community Organizing, Education and Empowerment.
Read MoreKristen DiAngelo, Pearl Callahan, and Dephine Brody are members of the Sex Workers Outreach Project Sacramento (SWOP) and sex worker advocates, who spend their time doing outreach to those who are trafficked and/or engaged in survival sex. Today, they use their personal stories of trafficking, violence, empowerment, and survival, as a way to help and educate others.
Read MoreGenevieve Davis, M.F.A, B.S, B.A., studied Art and Filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Anthropology at Beloit College. She has given talks on SECRET LIFE, SECRET DEATH at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago History Museum, WBEZ Chicago, DePaul University, Beloit College, University of Wisconsin, and many libraries, museums, bookstores and book clubs, all of whom have collected her work. SECRET LIFE, SECRET DEATH won Best Art Film at Indiefest U.S.A. in Los Angeles.
Read MoreKate D'Adamo is a National Policy Advocate at the Sex Workers Project and a community organizer with the Sex Workers Outreach Project - NYC and Sex Workers Action New York. Prior to this, she worked on these issues at the International Commission for Labor Rights and Global Workers Justice Alliance, as well as independent campaigns including Human Rights for All, which sought to integrate sex worker rights into the UN’s Universal Periodic Review.
Read MoreDr. Karen Countryman-Roswurm, PhD, LMSW, is the Founding Executive Director of the WSU Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT). Karen has served for more than two decades in the anti-trafficking movement through the provision of outreach and therapeutic services, community organizing and advocacy, research, education, and policy development.
Read MoreJean Cook graduated from Lourdes College in Sylvania Ohio with a bachelors degree in social work, followed by a masters degree in counseling from the University of Toledo. She is now the Executive Director of Rahab's Heart.
Read MoreKristen R. Choi, BSN, RN, is a PhD student. Her program of research in the doctoral program focuses on abused, neglected, and exploited children.
Read MoreMichelle Contreras is a professor at William James College and a 2014 recipient of the APAs Women in Leadership Award.
Read MoreLee Ann Campbell survived a childhood of human trafficking. Lee Ann was raised in Toledo Ohio in a family where drugs and trafficking one's own child was the norm. Through interventions by police, Children's Services and a local church, she turned her life into a mission to help others still trapped in that life. With the help of That Neighborhood Foundation in North Toledo, Lee Ann and Sandy Sherman, OSU, formed Rahab's Heart. After forming Rahab's Heart with Sr Sandy Sherman, OSU, they chose Jean Cook as director. Jean has a BA in social work from Lourdes College and an MEd from the University of Toledo.
Read MoreChristy is the Public Education Team Supervisor at Women’s Crisis Center. Christy Burch has been working in the violence prevention field for over 18 years.
Read MoreAmanda Brooks is an escort, author and activist. Her sex work has spanned four continents. She presented a paper at the 2009 Toledo conference on "Employment Law Violations and Human Rights Violations in a Legal Nevada Brothel."
Read MoreJill Brenneman is a sex trafficking survivor. Formerly an abolitionist, she became an advocate for decriminalization, joining the movement for human rights for sex workers, studying harm reduction at Minnesota’s Sexual Violence Center. Jill is a retired sex worker.
Read MoreBailey Patton Brackin, LMSW, is the Outreach Coordinator for the CCHT. She has served three years in the anti-trafficking movement.
Read MoreAngela Boday, currently pursuing BSW at UT, holds an Assc. Of Criminal Justice. Co-founder of Harvey House.
Read MoreLindsay is a sex worker from Toronto and a PhD student at York University. Her research interests include performance and performativity in sex work, gender, sexuality and mental health.
Read MoreKeri is the Outreach Advocate at the YWCA H.O.P.E. Center of Northwest Ohio. Keri received her Master of Liberal Studies in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toledo in May of 2013. Keri has been a victim advocate with the H.O.P.E. Center since November of 2011.
Read MoreEllyn Bell and Stacey Bell are co-authors of "Singing with the Sirens: Overcoming the Long Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Exploitation". (May 2015; She Writes Press) Both are social workers by background. Ellyn holds a Masters Degree in Theology and Stacey is completing her PhD in Multi-Cultural Education with an emphasis in Human Rights. Ellyn and Stacey are business partners for Bella Invictus, a consulting company focusing on personal and social change around human rights and sexuality.
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