Dr. Kimberly Hogan is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. Her scholarship focuses on human trafficking, survivor-centered services, and program evaluation. She collaborates internationally with agencies advancing prevention, advocacy, and systems change for trafficking survivors.
Read MorePastor Chuck Campbell is a member of the Education Committee of Northwest Ohio REACH Anti-Trafficking Coalition. Throughout his life, he has been committed to social justice causes, having served on several non-profit boards in the Toledo, Ohio area and has won numerous awards, including the Community Cares Award from the IHTSJ Conference.
Read MoreDr. Brenda Kynard-Holsey is Co-Chair of Education for the Northwest Ohio REACH Anti-Trafficking Coalition. Since 2014, she has led awareness training for salon professionals, partnering with state and local agencies. In 2019, she received the Community Cares Award from the IHTSJ Conference and the Liberator Award from the SOAP Project.
Read MoreAmanda Stylianou is a nationally recognized leader in anti-violence work. She serves as Chief Executive Officer of HEAL Trafficking, bringing a decade of nonprofit leadership across Safe Horizon, Rutgers Health, and Easterseals. Her work advances multidisciplinary responses supporting survivors of human trafficking and violence through research, policy, and practice innovation.
Read MoreMechelle Moore is a transnational crime specialist focused on anti-human trafficking and cyber slavery in the Asia Pacific. As CEO of Global Alms Incorporated, she leads trauma-informed care for survivors. She is also an Adjunct Associate Lecturer at Charles Sturt University and the founder of Yes She Matters.
Read MoreKamal Raj is the founder of Cross Global Asia Foundation and a TEDx speaker specializing in labour migration and anti-trafficking responses. He has led initiatives preventing child trafficking, rehabilitating 938 survivors, and strengthening protective systems and law enforcement coordination across Asia.
Read MoreNisha Mehroon is the India Country Director at Asia Freedom Network and Program Director and Research Specialist at Sanjog, with extensive experience on access to justice in trafficking contexts. She has led multi-state research on victim identification and forced criminality, working with law enforcement and survivor networks to strengthen institutional responses and address survivor criminalization.
Read MoreEvelyn Mercier is a first-year MSW student at New Mexico Highlands University in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She previously studied Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Michael's College and conducted research related to education in undergraduate programs about human trafficking.
Read MoreIn 2009, Edith Klimoski managed the start-up process of Give Way to Freedom, and she has since been the director. She operates its Rapid Response Support System, provides trainings, mentors research projects, and sits on a variety of multi-disciplinary collaboratives. She also works with Rotary International to decrease vulnerabilities to victimization.
Read MoreOmara Rivera-Vazquez is the Director of the Criminology Program at Saint Michael’s College (SMC) in Vermont. She co-developed a community-engaged human trafficking course at SMC and SUNY Oswego’s first online trafficking course, and previously managed Vermont’s Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking, focused on prevention, policy, and survivor-centered responses.
Read MoreDr. Júlia Tomás is a researcher and systems practitioner specializing in homelessness, human trafficking prevention, and survivor‑centered policy design. She leads national and international research at The Passage, developing public‑health approaches to early intervention and structural risk reduction across homelessness systems. Her work focuses on evidence‑based prevention and cross‑sector collaboration.
Read MoreSophie Otiende is a feminist, teacher, and founder of Collective Threads and Azadi Community. Her work has focused on developing systems for grassroots organizations. She firmly believes in a future where empathy, harmony, and trust can be seamlessly articulated in processes and systems in institutions.
Read MoreChris Ash is an organizer with thirty years of experience and the co-founder of Collective Threads Initiative. They have spent recent years researching survivors’ experiences of “survivor leadership” in anti-trafficking spaces, and you can see more of their work at https://christianash.com/portfolio/.
Read MoreKatie Green is a human trafficking survivor. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and a Clinically Certified Human Trafficking Victims Services Provider. Katie has her own therapy practice and a passion for providing trauma treatment to survivors of human trafficking.
Read MoreLogan Knight is an assistant professor at the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas. As a survivor-researcher-advocate, she is committed to socially just, inclusive and equitable research with survivors. Her research focuses on resilience and renewing discourses in order to center the dignity and strengths of survivors of all kinds of trafficking, including ritual abuse.
Read MoreSvali has been advocating for survivors of ritual abuse and mind control (RAMC) for over 30 years. As a survivor, her publications and interviews seek to raise awareness and improve support and services for survivors. She strongly believes in research that creates knowledge beneficial to survivors and debunk the narratives that harm RAMC survivors.
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