Nikki Litvak: sex trafficking expert at First Step Home.
Read MoreMilay Lemos is a graduate student in Counseling and Global Mental Health at William James College, with a background in feminist research and gender and women’s studies. Milay is currently a research assistant with RIA House.
Read MoreAmy LaGesse is the Regional Grant Coordinator for the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition. Amy works with Local Outreach Partners under the Rescue and Restore Grant to identify and refer foreign born victims of human trafficking to appropriate services. Amy has her Masters in Sociology from the University of Toledo.
Read MoreSarah Ladd, Esq. is an attorney and Skadden Fellow with the Legal Aid of Western Ohio Human Trafficking Protection Project, which she founded in September 2013. Sarah has her JD from Michigan State University College of Law. She is part a collaborative team that provides services and advocacy to human trafficking survivors in Ohio., and is a proud member of the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition and the Northwest Ohio Rescue and Restore Coalition.
Read MoreAwkash Kumar, PhD scholar, Central University of Gujarat, India. Kumar research area is human trafficking and the counter trafficking mechanism in India and Bangladesh. Completed M.Phil. on “Human Trafficking as a Security Threat: a Case Study of Bihar”. Completed masters in criminology. The interest areas are policing, human trafficking, human rights, police administration and investigation, juvenile crime and child protection, naxal insurgency.
Read MoreAlicia Komives, LISW-S Masters in Social Work, is trained as a trainer for “Think Trauma” via National Child Traumatic Stress Network-NCTSN. She is a Level-1 Certified Trauma Specialist
Read MoreKim Kohl, MAOL, OTR/L earned her master’s in Organizational Leadership to work with survivors of human trafficking. She is active with Summit County Collaborative Against Human Trafficking and speaks publicly to raise awareness.
Read MoreElana Koh is a graduate from Kent State University with a bachelors in Marketing. In 2014, Koh was one of seven AmeriCorps PATH members brought on by the Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force as a human trafficking public education specialist and assisted in coalition building in NE Ohio. She has served as co-chair of Stark County coalition (PATHS) and long term volunteer with Imagine Foundation.
Read MorePefi is a daughter of Niue, an island nation in the South Pacific; and Executive Director of “PacificWIN”. She has had long service in community development; human & gender rights; youth & women’s development; education across sector; public health & mental health service provision; qualitative research; heritage indigenous language; cultural heritage performing arts, and latterly, Human Trafficking in the Pacific Region, her PhD focus…Kia Monuina Blessings
Read MoreLambia Karitsiotis and Peggy Campbell-MacLean are both Certified Trauma Educators and possess a Bachelor of Social Sciences Degree from the University of Ottawa. They have over 20 years of combined experience working with a traumatized population, and in the field of community corrections.
Read MoreDr. Charles Hounmenou is an assistant professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly a research specialist at the College’s Center for Social Policy and Research, he conducted substantial research on human trafficking and police brutality in the U.S.A. Recently, he was the principal investigator for three international studies on child prostitution in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Hounmenou holds a Master and Ph.D. degrees in social work
Read MoreKiloMarie holds a B.A. in Counseling. She received her M.S. in Criminal Justice. She is currently a doctoral student working towards a degree in social work. KiloMarie currently serves as a Violence Prevention and Response Program Coordinator and Advocate for the University of Minnesota. She is also the E.D. of a non-profit org., Unspoken Voices. KiloMarie will be speaking at national and international conferences about various forms of violence within the next several months.
Read MoreKathleen W. Gorman, OTD, received her bachelor’s in psychology from Xavier University and doctorate degree in occupational therapy from the University of Toledo. Her interests include exploring the role of occupation in trauma informed care to combat human trafficking.
Read MoreAlice Grabe grew up in South Africa. Grabe then attended Virginia Tech where she studied Urban Planning. Post-graduation, Alice joined Teach For America, teaching 8th grade science in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Alice G experience in Arkansas intensified her interest in law, specifically in education reformation.
Read MoreAngela K. Goldner, MPH, BA; Event Coordinator for The Imagine Foundation. Her research interests include crime mapping for missing children, DMST, environmental criminology, school safety, and ALICE training.
Read MoreJill St George is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados. Having qualified at the Bar of England & Wales, Jill worked as a Research Assistant in the UK before moving abroad. After enjoying a short time in the Bahrain, Jill moved to Barbados in 2011. Jill’s areas of teaching & research include Family law, Gender and the law in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Criminal law, with a focus on gender-based violence and human trafficking in the Caribbean.
Read MoreHe hold Doctorate, Master and Bachelor degrees in Law and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom. He is an Associate Professor of Law and Acting Head, Department of Public and International Law, Osun State University, Nigeria.
Read MoreKatie Fritz Fogel recently completed her Master’s in Public Health degree at the University of Minnesota focusing on adolescent health.
Read MoreDr. Joel Filmore is a professor, clinical counselor, author, and public speaker. He earned his Doctorate in Counselor Education from Northern Illinois University. He is a Core Faculty member, and staff therapist, at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. He specializes in affective disorders (depression, anxiety, anger...etc.), trauma & abuse issues/survivors, LGBTQ Issues, multiculturalism, sex-trafficking, sex offender issues, as well as addictions/substance abuse.
Read MoreRepresentative Teresa Fedor is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives and serves District 45 in Toledo.
In 2012, the Governor signed into law Rep. Fedor’s most comprehensive human trafficking legislation to date, Safe Harbor Act (H.B. 262). Most recently, the Governor signed into law Rep. Fedor’s H.B. 130 End Demand Act, a bill that tackles the market-driven demand for purchasing commercial sex by increasing penalties for purchasing sex from a minor among others.
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