Alyssa Crittenden is a senior at Rogers High School who participates in track, cheer, and volleyball. Alyssa is a member of the National Honor Society. She is considering becoming a surgeon.
Read MoreAusten Allen is a senior at Rogers High School where he is involved in football, track, choir, and the AVID program. He plans to go to college to study engineering.
Read MoreChantal Crane is an MSW student with an interest in working with eating disorders. She is one of the organizers of the exhibit accompanying this discussion: Shining a Light: Monsters, Mysteries, and How Society Divides Us.
Read MoreCourtney Chalfin is an MSW with an interest in macro-level social work. Courtney was a mentor at Rogers for both years of her MSW program.
Read MoreHeather Sloane is an assistant professor at the University of Toledo Social Work Program, she studies professional education culture and develops alternative education programs that disrupt myths caused by social separation in an effort to understand implicit bias in medical settings that contribute to health care disparity.
Read MoreNeil Simon is president of Business Development Group (global firm) that focuses on building leadership and management capabilities, culture change, sustainability, talent development, and strategies to transform organizations to address changing needs. He is a Professional Instructor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs and Administration at Western Michigan University.
Read MoreHannah Estabrook has been working as a clinician in the mental health field for about a decade and is currently employed by the Franklin County Municipal Court as Coordinator of CATCH Court, a Specialized Docket that serves victims of prostitution and human trafficking.
Read MoreDr. Tammy Schultz is a professor and Clinical Training Coordinator in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Wheaton College. She teaches about transformation from sexual abuse all over the world and co-authored Beyond Desolate: Hope vs. Hate in the Rubble of Sexual Abuse. She was awarded the 2010 Indiana Counselor of the Year.
Read MoreDr. Donna Sabella is the Seedworks Endowed Associate Professor of Social Justice at UMass Amherst’s College of Nursing where she teaches courses on human trafficking, heath disparities and social justice. She is also a psychiatric nurse practitioner with experience working in corrections with prostituted and trafficked women.
Read MoreAmy Rouleau is the Founder and Executive Director of Restoration Place, a nonprofit organization whose primary vision is to provide long-term aftercare for girls who have been sexually exploited. Her personal testimony as a foster care child and survivor of sexual exploitation will leave you inspired.
Read MoreDr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is an Associate Professor in the Arizona State University (ASU) School of Social Work and the Director of the Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research. She is on a number of local, state and national expert task forces and councils, and is on the editorial board of three journals.
Read MoreMs. Reisa Roberts is a dynamic member of the TIP Committee of the Guyana Women Miners Organization. She also serves on the National Networking Group on TIP and the alternate representative of the National Task Force on TIP. Since its inception, she has volunteered at the Together in Peace Home.
Read MoreMandi Pierson received her MSW from The Ohio State University and has since had over 10 years' experience working with women recovering from trauma and addiction. After providing clinical leadership, program development, and education, Mandi has returned to the role of counselor. Mandi thrives on providing trauma specific treatment and community education.
Read MoreEinat Peled is an Associate Professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on gendered aspects of social work and, in particular, on aspects of violence against women and girls, prostitution and paying for sex, and mothering and fathering. Major foci of her are the study of societal and professional responses to these social problems and the development and evaluation of systematic and evidence-based interventions in these domains.
Read MorePatina Park is Lakota and has led trainings nationwide related to Federal Indian Law, sex trafficking, and historic trauma. She is currently the Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, a 34-year-old nonprofit dedicated to healing the multi-generational and historic trauma experienced from the effects of colonization.
Read MoreCaroline Palmer is the Safe Harbor Director at the Minnesota Department of Health where she develops the statewide approach to sexual exploitation and human trafficking. She holds degrees from Barnard College and Hamline University School of Law.
Read MoreJohn Padgett is a retired violent crimes detective who served on the Georgia’s child abuse, child fatality, and domestic violence review boards. His arrests include two serial child molesters, three serial rapists, and Augusta, Georgia’s first serial murderer. His recent publications are in SAGE Publications 2018, Encyclopedias of Criminal Psychology.
Read MoreJoseph Osuigwe has a Bachelor of Education and wrote two books on human trafficking. He is an anti- trafficking advocate and the Executive Director of Devatop Centre for Africa Development. He has been at the forefront of combating trafficking in Nigeria using modern approaches and engaged 200 volunteers from 4 countries on anti-human trafficking advocacy.
Read MoreMike Nowlin is the Executive Director of Hagar USA (of Hagar International) and previously directed their Cambodia trauma recovery programs. He is an LISW-S with 20 years’ social work experience, holding BA’s in Psychology & Sociology (Hope College), an MS-Social Administration (Case Western), and completed the Global Mental Health Certificate program (Harvard).
Read MoreDr. Jeremy Norwood is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Spring Arbor University. His research focuses on human trafficking through Asian Massage Parlors and migrant farmworker populations in Western Michigan. Dr. Norwood has also led numerous workshops and trainings for professionals on human trafficking.
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