The Untold Story: Trafficking in the Black Community

ALC Contact(s)

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  Megan Simmons, MPA/JD

  Sr. Policy Attorney
  Ujima, Inc.: The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community

Invited Panelist(s)

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  Tanisha Murden

  Author, Program Director, Survivor, Transformational Speaker, Mentor,
  The W.I.R.E (Women Involved in Reentry Efforts)
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  Austen Williams

  President/ Executive Director
  The Culture Catalyst Inc.- Project Free Style
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  Karma Cottman

  Executive Director
  National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community/DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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  Monique Howard

  Executive Director
  Women Organized Against Rape

Invited Moderator(s)

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  Tanya Wright

  Actress, Writer, Producer and Entrepreneur, Orange is the New Black and HAIRiette

Forty percent (40%) of victims of human trafficking are African-American women and girls. Human trafficking disproportionately subjects Black women and girls to sexual misconduct and violence at alarming rates. This conversations will include education, deterrence, and awareness in the Black community support elimination of this crime.