Centering Survivor Voices to Reimagine Justice
This keynote offers a sweeping look at the systems, policies, and practices that continue to create barriers for survivors of human trafficking. Grounded in real-world challenges and survivor experiences, it examines how institutional responses can unintentionally perpetuate harm—and what it takes to build approaches rooted in equity, accountability, and justice. Attendees will gain a clearer […]
Preventing, Identifying, and Responding to Trafficking Among Systems-Involved Youth: A Toolkit for Colorado Professionals
Despite increased awareness of human trafficking, minors who have experienced exploitation or are at risk are still frequently overlooked or misidentified. These youth often end up in detention centers, disengage from school, or turn to substances to cope with complex trauma. How can professionals begin to recognize trafficking when it manifests in everyday scenarios including survival sex […]
Defeating the Illicit Massage Industry: A Scalable Strategy to Disrupt Organized Exploitation
The Network’s goal is to defeat trafficking in the illicit massage industry. Integral to that is enabling a research ecosystem capable of achieving greater analytic sophistication than the strategies used by traffickers themselves. By combining infrastructure, domain-specific data engineering, and academic rigor, we aim to accelerate the pipeline from intelligence to insight to decision to […]
Barriers and Breakthroughs: Navigating the Complexities of Civil Litigation in the Fight Against Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking civil cases can be a powerful tool for justice—but they’re also incredibly complex and challenging on the survivor. This session explores why, from proving harm and navigating deeply personal trauma to litigating against corporate defendants rather than the individual traffickers. At the same time, civil litigation can offer real value: validation, resources for […]
Building Child Welfare Responses to Child Labor Trafficking
Since the beginning of modern efforts in the United States to address human trafficking around 25 years ago, child welfare agencies have played some role in responding to youth who have or may have experienced human trafficking. In more recent years, federal law has significantly reshaped the way child welfare agencies approach identification and service […]
The Power of Unlikely Relationships
This presentation examines how engagement strategies, rapport-building, and intentional funding efforts can either transform or hinder a survivor’s journey. There is an unseen journey from exploitation to empowerment, and this session brings it to life through the lens of relational impact and interactive, “real & uncut” dialogue. Participants will engage in interactive hypothetical scenarios. A […]
Boys are Trafficked, Too
Sean grew up in a quiet Midwestern farming town—far from the places people assume trafficking occurs. In this workshop, he challenges those misconceptions and explores how communities and service providers can shift from narrow, outdated ideas of who “counts” as a victim to a more accurate understanding grounded in lived experience. Sean shares a timeline […]
Healing Through the Law: Credit Repair and Other Legal Pathways to Recovery
Survivors of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation often face serious legal and financial barriers long after the abuse ends. Damaged credit, coerced debt, eviction records and criminal charges can stand in the way of housing, employment and economic stability. This session will provide a practical overview of the legal needs survivors commonly face […]
The Need for Enhanced Training on Minor Trafficking Across Wide Networks ofProfessionals
Diverse groups of professionals interact with suspected minor trafficking victims and serve as important points for identification and intervention. Understanding what professionals know about these victims but also where knowledge is lacking is essential ensuring victims are identified, services provided, and traffickers are prosecuted. This presentation provides an overview of studies evaluating three groups of […]
Cross border trafficking: Geographies, typologies and experiences of trafficking in personsacross the US-Mexico border
People who migrate into the United States (US) across the southern border are known to be at increased risk for trafficking in persons (TIP) and/or exploitation along the migratory route and are frequently set up for labor and sexual exploitation within the US. While existing evidence suggests the problem of TIP among migrant populations is […]
