The Network - Complete Directory

Jay Benke

Jay Benke is an abduction and child sex trafficking survivor located in Oregon. As a person whose disabilities and LGBTQ2IA+ identity intersect with her survivorship, she brings a unique perspective as she serves the community. She specializes in advocacy for the disabled, trafficked children and youth, victims of intimate partner violence, people experiencing houselessness, and victims who have been incarcerated. The focus of her work ranges from criminal justice reform to demand reduction to survivor equity and inclusion to harm reduction and trauma-informed care.

Jay is the creator of The Network, a comprehensive directory of survivors, advocates, allies, and stakeholders who want to conduct business together or shop at survivor-owned businesses and businesses that support survivors. She is the owner of Clever Human LLC, her consulting company, one of the founding members of Northwest Survivor Alliance, an Elevate Academy faculty member, and a Consultant for the Blue Campaign. Jay serves on the Oregon DOJ Human Trafficking Intervention Advisory Committee, is a member of the Oregon DOJ Research & Data Committee, a member of the Community Advisory Board as part of Multnomah County's Sex Trafficking Collaborative, and one of the co-creators of the Roadmap training tool which is in the final editing stage.

Services Provided: Jay is a human trafficking consultant, public speaker, author, mentor, curriculum specialist, content creator, and fact-check editor for both the public and private sectors.

Castanita Fitzpatrick

Castanita Fitzpatrick is an extraordinary survivor, speaker, and author whose inspiring journey of triumph over sex trafficking has touched audiences worldwide. Her powerful memoir, "31 Years In the Desert," has resonated deeply with readers, while her co-creation of the thought-provoking short film "Can Oppression Be Liberation" has sparked crucial conversations about exploitation. Through her captivating speeches, Castanita empowers individuals to recognize their self-worth and take a stand against sex trafficking. Her unwavering commitment and powerful voice make her an exceptional choice for events and organizations seeking to raise awareness and promote empowerment.

By booking Castanita Fitzpatrick as a speaker, you can provide a transformative experience for your audience. Her firsthand account of resilience and empowerment will inspire and educate while shedding light on the realities of sex trafficking. Castanita's ability to connect with diverse audiences, combined with her powerful storytelling, makes her a perfect fit for conferences, universities, community organizations, and other platforms dedicated to creating positive social change.

Robin Miller

Direct service provider, advocacy, case management, juvenile justice systems navigator, mentor, public speaker, trainer, content creator, curriculum developer, policy consultant, lobbyist

Nola Kesia Brantley

Nola Brantley Speaks provides trauma-informed, attachment-focused and resiliency-based training on trauma and commercial sexual exploitation to multi-disciplinary providers who work with youth and young adults. Nola Brantley speaks utilizes a survivor-clinical trainer model providing both a theoretical foundation of the concepts along with real lived experiences.

Wade Arvizu

Strategic-Planning, Organizing and Development, Equitable Recruitment and Hiring, Trauma-Informed Human Resources, Allies Trainings, International movement-building, Ethical Fundraising, Author

Adrienne Livingston

Education, Awareness, and Prevention. Through the Justice Freedom project, I interview people that help to highlight the issues of sex trafficking & exploitation and where this issue intersects with other societal ills such as violence, abuse, poverty, gangs, vulnerable populations, etc.

Yasmin Vafa

Federal and state policy advocacy and systems change, sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of young women and girls with a focus on marginalized populations, the intersections between sexual exploitation and the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems, the intersection between child sex trafficking and the child welfare system, training and technical assistance with an emphasis on judicial education, intersectional justice reform focused on survivors of gender-based violence, and research related to the “abuse to prison pipeline” that pushes girls and women into the legal system as a direct result of the violence they survive.

Rev. Yevette “Vette” Christy

I consult/speak on ethical advocacy, cultural competency, and religious trauma. The space I feel most qualified as a survivor servant is between the survivor and the advocate/ally. I enjoy consulting on policies and practices within direct care service provision, and I enjoy asking allies and advocates to consider who they are, and where systems intersect their personal identities. I ask essential questions so that allies/advocates can interrogate their blind spots so that they minimize how they may potentially harm a survivor as they are emerging from the life.

Dr. Shobana Powell

Training and technical assistance on the intersection of trauma, trafficking, and systemic oppression with a focus on Survivor Equity & Inclusion, vicarious trauma, and anti-oppression/DEI

Megan Lundstrom

Sex trafficking, pimp control, social media, offender-focused investigations, cultic theory, successful interventions, law enforcement training, research, best practices

Katherine Givens

Grooming Process, Race & Human Trafficking, Cultural Inclusion, Prevention, Youth, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Survivor Engagement & Leadership

Audrey Morrissey

Mentoring, Conference planning, survivor leadership,Csec

Larissa Crack

Connecting Neurodiversity and the increased vulnerability to sex trafficking- non-behavioural, trauma informed approaches for families in parenting children with diverse needs (ADHD, Autism, ODD) to reduce future risk of victimization.

Services Provided: In home intensive family preservation, Equine assisted wellness counselling, public speaking on both lived experience and education on different specific topics (contact for more info on current public education/ speaking topics)

John-Michael Lander

Predatory Grooming Trifecta and Helping Sexually Abused Athletes

Services Provided: Speaking, Advocating, and Author

Jessica

Trafficking -Prevention / Support/Medical Advocacy / legal advocacy

Anneke Lucas

Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, Child Sex trafficking

Amy Peine

Community education, trafficking 101, strip club dynamics and experiences, Safe Harbor for All (equality model)

Rachael Asbey

Human Trafficking Awareness, Mentoring

Emma George

Occupational Therapy, Occupational Justice, Advocacy, Research

Michael "Mike" Chapman

Men healing from Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Exploitation and any other kind of Sexual Brokenness, Faith-based Recovery Life Coaching

Kristina Aiad-Toss

Babin Law, LLC brought the first lawsuit in the country seeking to hold hotels accountable for profiting from human trafficking, under a federal statute, called the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). That statute permits survivors of human trafficking to bring a civil lawsuit against any entity that "knowingly benefited" from what it "knew or should have known" to be human trafficking.

The TVPRA is a law that can be used to hold hotels accountable for their role in failing to prevent human trafficking from occurring on their properties. Survivors finally have a new way to access justice. In civil court, survivors can seek compensation from the hotels that profited from their trafficking, and allowed it to happen. Babin Law accepts cases all across the country on a contingency fee basis.

If you are a survivor who was trafficked at a hotel, please contact us at 833-SURVIVORS or kristina.aiad-toss@babinlaws.com.

Carra Gilson

Anti- Human Trafficking Advocate | Aspiring Doula | Data Manager | Program Evaluation Coordinator

Mark D Steenbarger

Storytelling, Intervention tool using film

Tomas Perez

Male ally engagement/demand reduction

Caroline Pugh-Roberts

Exit and after care ( non residential) .Training and public speaking on HT , co facilitates the sex buyers accountability program for 15 years. Registered expert on HT and can be called upon at trial in this capacity.

Jared Lichtenberg

Video production, short/long form documentary work, camera operation, event capture.

Jennifer Abbott

Outreach Worker (street, groups, speaking, community, mentoring.)

Elevate Academy

Elevate is currently serving students across the U.S. and in 16 countries around the world. We offer 100% tuition assistance. Elevate Academy gives students a safe online space to learn, connect, and thrive because of the support from our partners and donors. Our enrollment has exploded in 2022 and we are working hard to keep up with the demand for our services. We can’t do this without you.

Marianne Thomas

I am an expert in complex trauma specifically as it relates to childhood sexual abuse. My company is a collective of lived experience experts who provide training on everything from a one hour HT101 training to ongoing consulting for new and growing HT programs.

Kelley Alsobrook

Human trafficking 101, Law enforcement training, Public & private sector training

Dr Debbie Lassiter

Trauma Informed, Client focused services for individuals with the lived experience of human trafficking, special program for the parents and loved ones of individuals with lived experience and a variety of training options for service providers.

Emily Johnson

Human trafficking education and awareness, community outreach and engagement, grassroots advocacy, and strategic collaboration/building a collective response in Michigan. MAP is part of a larger organization, Vista Maria, who provides direct care and specialized housing for youth survivors of HT.

Heather Evans

complex trauma, posttraumatic growth, trauma informed care; I provide individual therapy for trauma survivors through Evans Counseling Services; I also provide trainings on trauma informed care for service providers and organizations. I also am the founder of Voices of Survivors Project, a photographic expression of survivors VAST also provides outreach, survivor empowerment, and awareness/advocacy.

Jessica Johnson

Public Speaking, Advocating for Human Trafficking, mental health, trauma/ healing

Merissa Hauptstueck

education and training, anti-trafficking professional, mental health counselor serving people with complex trauma, LGBTQ+ advocate, mother, and spouse

Kat Wehunt

We have specialized services for females, males, transitional aged youth, undocumented persons, U.S. Citizens, LGBT population, who have experienced sex trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation. Our programs provide survivor-centered and empowerment-based services to strengthen and support survivors. Emergency Shelter & Crisis Intervention: Exiting exploitative situations can be a long and very hard process. Access to service providers and resources before, during, and after a survivor's escape is crucial. Often this is a process and can take many attempts. We work with community-based organizations to support the in-person crisis response where individuals provide trauma-informed support and emergency shelter coordination for CSE and domestic trafficking survivors. This program is the access point to all other survivor services. Community: We operate a day-time drop in center with the goal of increasing identification and connecting survivors with services. Our center serves as a safe place for survivors to come make friends, meet with a service coordinator, eat, or rest. We encourage and empower survivors to become independent by meeting basic needs and increasing awareness of the resources available to survivors. Service Coordination: We work one-on-one with every person in our care to support them based on their individual needs and goals. Our Service Coordination program is divided into three phases: crisis intervention, stabilization phase, and long-term/closing phase. We provide each participant with survivor-centered comprehensive case management, resource coordination, and transitional housing support. These services are accessed at our drop-in center.

Patte O’Connor

Sexual Assault Trauma Victim empowerment Power of intuition

Melissa Kaiser

Human trafficking, multi-disciplinary teams, secondary traumatic stress

Alia Dewees

Child Welfare, Exploited Parents, Safe Housing Options, Pornography, Trauma Informed Services, Anti-Decrim, Policy and Legislation

Lauren Smith

Trauma & Grief Therapy | Future Trauma & Grief Clinical Mental Health Therapist | Human Trafficking Ally for 10+ years

Christine Cesa

Familial Trafficking, Trauma Informed Care, Providing Care to Survivors In The Healthcare System, CSEC, Providing services to survivors of familial trafficking, Policy, consultation, Consultant with State Department, Contributing Author to Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescents, Author on Fact Sheet on Familial Trafficking in the 2020 TIP report.

Kayla Bright

Gainful Employment, Stable Housing, Economic Independence

We are a nonprofit that is run by survivors. We believe economic empowerment is the key to releasing survivors from "the life" and hypothesize that a trauma-informed approach to gainful employment may be the most critical service required to reduce recidivism rates, particularly for a population who only know "work" as a painful and traumatic experience.

Angela Clark

Familial Trafficking, 101 HT, Healing & Recovery, Energy & Emotional Regulation Techniques

Charlie Tebow, LMSW

Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, Evidence- Based Practice, Social Work, Missing Youth, facilitation, training, program evaluation, therapy, art therapy, Frontline work

Tricia Severson

I speacialize in serving victims of sex traffficking

David Zimmerman

Consulting for awareness, education, policy and research purposes. Unless clients are located in Pennsylvania, services are available remotely. Topics include but are not necessarily limited to: child sexual abuse as a precursor to exploitation, familial commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, identifying victims who are preschool and elementary school age, abuse and exploitation of non binary and LGBTQIA youth, runaway children and youth, elements of transnational organized crime in child sex trafficking, elements of torture in exploitation, hypnosis and mind manipulation to silence victims, conditioning of victims to appear differently and speak other languages, mental health impacts of sexual exploitation on children, youth and young adults, long term health impacts of childhood exploitation with emphasis on C-PTSD, sleep conditions, thyroid malfunction, fibromyalgia, gastrointestinal conditions, eating disorders, and obsessions with regards to appearance and perfection, barriers faced by survivors in workplaces.

Brenna Wallace

Internationally recognized lived experience expert in Familial Disability Exploitation, child sexual abuse, disability sexual exploitation, adult Disability Exploitation, BDSM Slavery, Facebook grooming of Adults, Facebook grooming of children, Parenting A Raped Child from assault to graduation to adulthood, and Non- state torture. I connect Survivors of Human Trafficking with vetted organizations in their own area. I also connect services with each other. Mentor Men in India combating gender based violence in their own communities. OSCE ODIHR Certified Trainer of Frontline Responders in the Trauma Informed Approach and National Referral Mechanisms to address the added risks of trafficking in Ukrainians as a result of the armed conflict in the Ukraine. Offer tailored Training on any of the Topics listed above.

Alumni Elevate Academy, Member of Survivor Alliance, and The Global Academy of Human Trafficking Scholars, OSCE ODIHR Certified trainer of Frontline Responders in the Trauma Informed Approach and NRM’s to address the added risks of trafficking in Ukrainians as a result of the armed conflict.

Presentations at Conference include: The 2021 Kempe Conference A Call to Action to change child welfare: We Are the Forgotten identifying all victims of human trafficking.

The University of Toledo’s 19th Annual International Human Trafficking and Social Justice conference: Developmental Disabilities and Sex Trafficking how they Intersect.

The Kempe Conference A Call to Change Child Welfare 2022: The Complex Needs of Families with sexually Assaulted children.

A Lady with Lilies Society connects Survivors with resources all over the world. Providing Advocacy, Peer Support, and training for Survivors wishing to enter the anti trafficking movement, providing Survivor led training in Human trafficking.

Jose Lewis Alfaro

LGBTQIA+, Males, Civil, and Criminal cases

Rebekah Enoch

Database, reports and original publications on all forms of human trafficking and modern slavery.

Kristin Vaughn

Grant Proposal Writer

Teodora Akinola

we are an NGO that support and create programs for vulnerable categories of people

Paulina Dosal-Terminel

DNA matching programs for missing and unidentified persons (minors, specifically) Services Provided: dna kits, matching with programs internationally and accredited labs

Joel Shapiro

TLC works to connect survivors with pro bono legal representation.

Jean Eric Itangishatse

I am able to Psychosocial support and psycho therapy and counseling

Services Provided: Counselling and psychosocial support, raising awareness on Human Trafficking and modern slavery, working with survivors of Human Trafficking and Modern slavery, Training on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Lily Bivins

Survivor Empowerment, Story telling, Survivor Networking, Communication, Marketing

LaDonna Knabbs

HT Prevention Programs

Roxy Mahtani

I work alongside Attorneys providing pro-bono legal services to survivors in Nashville, TN to provide holistic advocacy.

Heather Hagelberger

Training of staff and community members, advocacy, victim/survivor services

Tina Dixon

Professional women's organization that seeks to sponsor survivors for digital marketing training and other fundraising activities for survivors

Dr. Beth Bowman

Support groups, assessments and collaborative planning, referral and safe house placement, psychoeducational skills, social emotional skills, addiction support, and prevention education/training. All ages, genders, and identities- survivors of sex trafficking.

Bradel Canfield

The importance of survivor leadership, transitioning to survivor-informed and survivor-led practices, employing lived experience, trauma-informed care/services, HT/CSEC 101

Liluye

Our mission:

Liluye is a global, collaborative community with Native workshops committed to empowering people and trafficked survivors. We provide survivors with safe places to work, viable trades, living wages, agency training, and holistic resources to help them heal, grow, and thrive.

Our vision and goals:

Our goal is to create collaborative workshops that will be global communities to catalyze positive change for trafficking survivors because there is a real need for prevention, training, economic empowerment, and holistic healing. These safe havens will bring more awareness and preventive measures to help end trafficking and modern slavery.

Liluye is seeking a purpose-driven organization or individual that we could co-create an indigenous, economic empowerment workshop / system to provide trafficking survivors wages and support, and showcase/help preserve indigenous culture and arts through a sustainable product, online shop.

We're also seeking a part-time, voluntary Treasurer, COO, SMM, and Grant Writer."

Jill Langhus-Griffin

Liluye, or “Singing Hawk While Soaring,” is a global, 501c3 collaborative community with Native workshops committed to empowering people and trafficked survivors. We plan on providing survivors with safe places to work, viable trades, living wages, agency training, and holistic resources to help them heal, grow, and thrive.

Our three core pillars are:

1. prevention (through sensitization/awareness programs)
2. economic empowerment (providing survivor-made products)
3. healing (through trauma-informed healing programs)

Our goal is to create collaborative workshops that will be global communities to catalyze positive change for trafficked survivors because there is a real need for training, economic empowerment, mental healthcare, and even food and shelter in some cases. These safe havens will bring more awareness and preventive measures to help end trafficking and modern slavery.

In the long run, we will elevate humanity by empowering as many trafficked warriors as possible through access to, or provision of, a holistic, reintegration program. By networking with other anti-trafficking, Fairtrade organizations, and by educating consumers and visitors alike on trafficking, prevention, resources, ethical standards, sustainability and ways to get involved, trafficking as a whole will be reduced; with the end goal to help eradicate it.

We currently have 35 partners in 12 countries.

Jenna Wakelin

Public speaking - Human trafficking prevention, awareness Prior public speaking engagements: Take BackThe Night York Region 2022 and National Anti Human Trafficking Conference York Region

Tina Frundy

Direct services for survivor of sex trafficking

A'ishah Amatullah

consulting on minor and adult domestic sex trafficking, particularly with a disability & LGBTQ+ lens; research projects, curriculum writing/editing, etc.

Tiffani Price

The overlap of foster care and Trafficking ritual abuse My personal story We have a survivor support group

Jennifer

Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, HT shelter and advocacy

Melanie Thompson

I provide trainings, workshops on Sex Trafficking, Prostitution/Abolition, Racial Injustice, Foster Care Advocacy, CSEC, Anti Systemic Oppression and more

Ava Heartley

Advising, Consulting, Training

Beautiful Feet Wellness provides fitness and wellness services free to survivors of human trafficking and exploitation. We provide community, relationships, networking, and ongoing support. We also spread awareness through dance and poetry performances. We focus on: *healing and addressing trauma through movement *trauma-informed care including DEI *long term care *creating community *the importance of community to reducing demand *communication skills for survivors *how to prevent trafficking in your workplace *how to bring the humanity, play, and presence back into your work *I also do faith forward or faith informed services and presentations *awareness performances of dance and poetry *research

Beautiful Feet Wellness provides fitness and wellness services free to survivors of human trafficking and exploitation. We provide community, relationships, networking, and ongoing support. We also spread awareness through dance and poetry performances.

We focus on: healing and addressing trauma through movement trauma-informed care including DEI long term care creating community the importance of community to reducing demand communication skills for survivors how to prevent trafficking in your workplace how to bring the humanity, play, and presence back into your work I also do faith forward or faith informed services and presentations awareness performances of dance and poetry

Savannah Sanders

Trafficking Prevention, Rural Community Services, Capacity Building and Technical Assistance and Training, Author of Sex Trafficking Prevention: A Trauma Informed Approach for Parents and Professionals

Ashley Faison

Ashley Faison is the CEO of Ashleyfaison.com LLC, operating as enRICH Professional Development. She provides career consultation to non-profits who serve marginalized communities, providing expertise, tools, and new perspectives for emerging professionals to gain economic empowerment.

She’s been featured on Meet the Elites podcast, Society of Elite Resume Writing CareerCon 2021, and in PowerHouse Newsletter in 2022. She is a member of the National Resume Writers' Association and a certified resume writer with 12+ years of experience reviewing resumes and sitting on interview panels as an HR Manager for the State of California.

Services provided:

Resume Writing Interview Preparation Career Planning Career Coaching

Emily Robinson

Consultations, Training and Full Program Reviews on these areas: Program Evaluation, How to successfully grow an organization to empower Survivors, Standards of care, ADEI, Survivor leadership, Familial, Sex, Cult and Labor Trafficking, Ritual Abuse, Post Traumatic Growth, Trauma Informed Program Practices.

Isabelle Finney

Hire private investigators to find missing and exploited kids

Cristine Knight

Outreach, Case Managment, Therapeutic Services, Education, Trainings

We are a non profit serving victims and survivors of human trafficking. You can visit our website at hrrecoveryinitaitive.org to donate or support us. Thank you

Victoria Roland

consulting, advocation, podcasting, organizing, non-profit TA

Tamara McGiffin

Housing

Tiffany Hoeft

Human sex trafficking, advocacy, public speaking, writing.

Nicole Harbert

I am a survivor expanding my connections and educating myself to help others.

Rachel Tavares

Jessica Kim

Jessica Kim, MSW is an advocate, speaker and educator for domestic and international anti- trafficking initiatives, specializing in Commercial Sexual Exploitaition (CSE) of youth and the immigrant populations for over a decade. She is a survivor of international and domestic sex trafficking, a Mexican immigrant, and a member of the California Child Welfare Council’s CSEC Action Team Advisory Board– a board specializing in improving policy and practice to support young people impacted by CSE and their families.

Jessica holds a Masters in Social Work degree from San Diego State University and uses her knowledge and passion of social justice to empower survivors and educate communities on prevention, education, and inclusion. Her experience in curriculum development has made a difference in the prevention and re-exploitation of trafficking within the San Diego region.

Services Provided: Consultant, Mentorship, Advocacy, Curriculum Development

Rachael Allert

Lived Experience and I am an licensed Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, beginning my career in outpatient pediatrics, mental/behavioral health, and I have an interest in animal assisted therapy. I also love art and dance and hope to one day use these tools in therapy practice.

Angel Ivicic

Worship team

Amy Baker

We provide victim services to Human Trafficking survivors which include but are not limited to emergency and long term housing, legal aid, transportation, reunification, relocation, counseling, therapy, and case management.

Kim Denton

Forensic interviews, EMDR, various therapy models

Sara Colbert

Awareness

Emily Snay

Juvenile justice and human trafficking intersectionality

Deshae Fangmeyer

Human trafficking, runaway prevention/awareness, juvenile courts

Natalie Eggers

MVST 101

Drew Meritt

I help to address why men are buying and lead outreach opportunities for our volunteers to go into vulnerable ply.

Rosette Nsonga (MA. SSPM)

Trauma informed approach, Plight of international survivors in the ant movement space, lived experience involvement in efforts to stop modern slavery and human trafficking