We are excited to announce our Freedom in Action 2020 conference!
“Structural Vulnerability:
The Road to Human Trafficking”
Deconstructing the policies and overlapping power
hierarchies that make communities vulnerable to human trafficking
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Purchase tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/91018580023
Conference Schedule
- 9:30am-10:15am: Registration & Breakfast
- 10:15am- 10:30: Welcome
- 10:30am-11:20am: Workshop Breakout Session 1
- “How to Detect and Assist Human Trafficking Victims in Healthcare Encounters” by Jenny Vo-Phamhi | Researcher & Stanford Hume Humanities Fellow
- “Disrupting the Foster Care System to Better Serve Youth Vulnerable to Trafficking” by Dr. Emily Murase | Director – San Francisco Department on the Status of Women
- “Commercial sex and sex trafficking – A Regional Response” by Sharan Dhanoa | Director of Strategic Development – South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking
- 11:30am-12:15pm: Keynote Address
- 12:15pm-1:10pm: Lunch, Tabling, & Culinary Healing Circle
- “Meals that Heal the Soul” [A Culinary Healing Circle] by Sarah Chan | Founder – Calypso Kitchen
- 1:15pm- 2:05pm: Workshop Breakout Session 2
- “Creating Space: Why Housing Advocacy is Critical to Anti-Trafficking Work” by Kristen Moore | Director of Programs – San Francisco SafeHouse
- “Making Exploitation Visible with a Multi-Disciplinary, Validated Screening Tool for Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children” by Hannah Haley & Danna Basson | WestCoast Children’s Clinic
- “Restorative Justice for Traffickers?” Panel
- Sarai T Smith-Mazariegos | Founder & Executive Director – S.H.A.D.E
- Darren White | Founder & Executive Director – Realized Potential Inc.
- April Smith | Deputy District Attorney – Alameda County District Attorney’s Office – Human Exploitation & Trafficking Unit
- Damone Hale | Attorney At Law – Criminal Defense
- 2:05pm- 2:30pm: Break
- 2:30pm- 3:20pm: Workshop Breakout Session 3
- “Sex Workers Speak! Prioritizing the voices of sex workers in anti-trafficking work” by Celestina Pearl | Outreach Manager & Nurse – St. James Infirmary
- “Can We Truly Stay Neutral Regarding Systems Of Prostitution?” by the F.R.E.E.D Collective
- “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Addressing Structural Vulnerability & Human Trafficking” Panel
- Jennifer B. Lyle | Executive Director – MISSSEY
- Rose Mukhar | Founder, Executive Director, & Lead Attorney – Justice At Last
- Cecilia Mo | Assistant Professor of Political Science – UC Berkeley
- Sharmin Bock | Assistant District Attorney – Alameda County District Attorney’s Office
- 3:30pm: Closing Remarks
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Thank you to our donors for their generosity and support
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