Speakers & Tracks

Speakers

Melanie Thompson

April 14th, 2026

Oree Freeman

April 15th, 2026

Liz Stein

Russell G. Wilson

Melanie Thompson

April 14th, 2026

Andrea Powell

April 14th, 2026

Tiffany Simpson

April 14th, 2026

Liz Stein

Sean Wheeler

Kara Napolitano

Kristina Wilburn

Desiree Lepsey

April 15th, 2026

Sabrina Kaufelt

BA, MS, MNM, JD

April 15th, 2026

Oree Freeman

April 15th, 2026

Bethany Gilot

April 15th, 2026

Marianna Kosharovsky

Shawn Flanigan

April 16th – 17th, 2026

Brooke Bissonnette

April 17th, 2026

Sarah C. Kim

April 16 – 17, 2026

Jodi Quas

April 16 – 17, 2026

Dr. Karrin Anderson

April 16 – 17, 2026

Dr. Hossein Shirazi

April 16 – 17, 2026

Shri Meenaakshi S

April 16 – 17, 2026

Dr. Kurunandan Jain

April 16 – 17, 2026

Ms. Pavithra S.P.

April 16 – 17, 2026

Dr. Indrakshi Ray

April 16 – 17, 2026

Dr. Chris Blocker

April 16 – 17, 2026

Ian Hassell

April 16 – 17, 2026

Richard L. Wiener

April 16 – 17, 2026

Program Information

101 Track

Centering Survivor Voices to Reimagine Justice

Hierarchy of CSEC Survival

201 Track

Preventing, Identifying, and Responding to Trafficking Among Systems-Involved Youth: A Toolkit for Colorado Professionals

Defeating the Illicit Massage Industry: A Scalable Strategy to Disrupt Organized Exploitation

Barriers and Breakthroughs: Navigating the Complexities of Civil Litigation in the Fight Against Sex Trafficking

Building Child Welfare Responses to Child Labor Trafficking

The Power of Unlikely Relationships

Boys are Trafficked, Too

Healing Through the Law: Credit Repair and Other Legal Pathways to Recovery

From Voice to Vision: Building Survivor Leadership for Change

Preventing, Identifying, and Responding to Trafficking Among Systems-Involved Youth:A Toolkit for Colorado Professionals

Present, Engaged & Committed: Building Trust Without Reenacting Control

Healing Through the Law: Credit Repair and Other Legal Pathways to Recovery

301 Track

The Need for Enhanced Training on Minor Trafficking Across Wide Networks ofProfessionals

Cross border trafficking: Geographies, typologies and experiences of trafficking in personsacross the US-Mexico border

Dark Enigma: Indexing the Dark Web to Disrupt Human Trafficking Networks

Moving beyond counts: Maintaining Solidarity Through Community-driven data

Building Research Infrastructure to Measure and Disrupt the Illicit Massage Industry Organizational Context

Investigating the Effectiveness of a Continuum of Care for Victims of Transnational Trafficking

Using LLMs to Detect Online Recruitment for Human Trafficking

“Sex Work” and “Sex Trafficking”: The Significance of Framing in Anti-Trafficking Teaching, Research, andAdvocacy

Why are We Getting Human Trafficking Education and Prevention So Wrong?

The State of Human Trafficking in Mexico: An Overview on Legislation and Trends

Moving beyond counts: Maintaining Solidarity Through Community-driven dataMarla N. Sutherland & Annjanette Alejano-Steele

Social assistance providers as sites of human trafficking identification, prevention, and disruption: evidence from the Ukraine conflict