Morning Welcome

Advocacy is Life or Death: Dismantling the Systemic Barriers that Perpetuate the Victimization of Survivors

Angelique Todd (she/her)

Centering Youth and Mentor Voices in the Development of Trauma-Informed Mentorship Program: Focus Group Findings

Sarbinaz Bekmuratova, PhD, MS (she/her), Rochelle Dalla, PhD, MS (she/her), Emma Dubisz (she/her), and Oluwatosin Alabi (she/her)

Emerging Routes, Patterns, and Dynamics of Human Trafficking: Insights from the Centre for Combating Human Trafficking in Zimbabwe

Chamunogwa Nyoni, PhD (he/him)

Family Dynamics and Involvement in Sex Trafficking Specialty Courts: Insights for Adapting Family Interventions

Aaron Murnan, PhD, LMFT (he/him), Gwen Jackson, MA (she/her), LaRose Daniels, CDCA, PRS (she/her), Jess Doone, PRS (she/her), and Susan Thompson, BS, CDCA, AAS (she/her)

From Missed to Identified: Micro and Macro Strategies to Transform Human Trafficking Identification

Kathleen Arnold, MSW (she/her) and Lindsey Gray, CPRSS, CHTI, QMHA, EMT, RTT, CNCI-APS (she/her)

From Survival to Systems: Lived Experience Leadership in Anti-Trafficking Practice

Paul McAnulty (he/him)

Restoration and Information: My Refuge House’s Aftercare and Prevention Efforts in the Global Epicenter for Online Sexual Exploitation of Children

Jedaia Rose Doñoz, RPm (she/her) and Jaden Kaye Empuerto, RSW (she/her)

Shame-Informed Practice: Strengthening Survivor Engagement and System Responses in Anti-Trafficking Work

Helen Avadiar-Nimbalker, MSc, MA, CCTP (she/her)

Using AI to Support Human Trafficking Programs and Research

David J. Corliss, PhD (he/him)

Closing the Gap: A Prevention Framework to Disrupt Grooming, Exploitation, and Human Trafficking Risk in Youth

Cerise Woodard, RN, SANE-A (she/her)

Constructing a Preventive Thinking Trajectory in Raising Human Trafficking Awareness Among Youth

Elina Paliichuk, PhD (she/her)

Counting our Dead: Femicide in the Context of the Sex Trade

Laura Aguiar (she/her)

From Detection to Recovery: Challenges in Victim Support for Human Trafficking

Carolina Villacampa, PhD (she/her), Clàudia Torres, PhD (she/her), and Rubén Espuny, PhD (he/him)

From Trust To Trafficking: A Survivors Journey

Jamie-Lee Ryckman (she/her)

Maryland's Statewide Network of Hope: The Regional Navigator Model

Danielle Thomas, EdD (she/her)

Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in the Workplace

Moses Atogo Unongu, MSyI (he/him)

Surviving the Systems Meant to Help: How to Stop Shooting the Wounded

Marie Fitzpatrick (she/her) and Crystal Self (she/her)

When Internal Worlds Meet External Systems: A Parts-Informed Approach to Survivor Care

Katie Watson, LCSW-S, MPA, RYT (she/her)

Lunch Session: Emancipation Nation Network & Survivor's Journey Informational Session

Lunch Session: RAMCOA Survivors Networking Room

Lunch Session: Researchers Networking Room

Lunch Session: Service Providers Networking Room

Lunch Session: "Social Hour" Networking Room

Lunch Session: Survivors Networking Room

Lunch Session: Survivors Networking Room #2

Clinical Whorephobia and the Labor of Embodiment: How Sex Workers Navigate “Care”

Madeline Stenersen, PhD (she/her), Kaliyah Gardner, MSW, MEd, Kaevyn Maple, MS (she/her), Olivia Croley, BA (she/her), Katherine Kelton, PhD, MSPH (she/her), and Maria Meinerding, PhD (she/her)

Egregious Crimes of the Epstein-Maxwell Network & Failures of the American Justice System Substantiate Reports of Victims of Organized Criminal Child Abuse and Demand Stronger Institutional Responses

Ellen Lacter, PhD (she/her)

Financing Conflict: The Use of Human Trafficking to Support Armed Groups, Terrorism, and Local Economies During Humanitarian Crises

Sarah Warner, JD, MPA (she/they)

From Harm to Accountability: Conducting Defensible IMEs in Civil Sex Trafficking Litigation

Kirsten Byrnes, PsyD, ABPP (she/her)

From Trauma to Trust: Navigating Familial Trafficking Within the Foster System

Alexandria LeZion, MA (she/her)

Sacrificed by the Priesthood: How to Protect the Vulnerable and Not the Powerful

Shirley Crane (she/her)

Stepping into Our Power: Survivor and Allies Collaborating for Policy Change

Audrey Morrissey (she/her) and Delia Vega (she/her)

The AI Paradox: How Artificial Intelligence is Both Weaponizing Exploitation and Accelerating Justice

Preston Goff, MDiv (he/him)

Third-Party Facilitators and the Demand for Survivors’ Stories

Chris Ash (they/them) and Ethan Czuy Levine, PhD (he/him)

Compassion in Action: Healthcare’s Call to Respond to Human Trafficking

Christine Commerce (she/her) and Anne Victory, HM, RN, MSN (she/her)

Dreams, Dignity, and the Hidden Reality of Labor Trafficking

Patty Bennett, MA (she/her)

Human Trafficking in Schools: Building a Coordinated Response

Hannah Swift, QBHS (she/her)

If Treatment Works, Why Do Survivors Still Feel Broken?

Celia Williamson, PhD, LISW-S (she/her)

Promoting Safety and Support: Child Labor Trafficking Awareness for Providers Working with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

Jessica Neham, MA (she/her) and Lindsey Draper, BA (she/her)

Reproductive Organ Trafficking and the Law of Unnamed Harms

Anonymous HT Survivor, CSW (she/her)

Responsible AI for Child Protection and the People Who Power It

Sherrie Bosisto, BA (she/her)

The Belonging Project: A Play and an Attitude Adjustment

Rosie Best, LISW-S (she/her), Nora Riggs, LISW (she/her), and Rachel Daley, LISW (she/her)

The Platform of Freedom: Leveraging Data & Technology to Bridge the Anti-Trafficking Gap

Annamaria Szakonyi, PhD (she/her)

Wrap-Up Session

Community Mental Health Art Exhibit's Expressive HEARTS to Creative Compass: A Holistic, Trauma-Informed Framework for Multi-Modal Healing and Community Connection

Shelly Kepford, MAC, LSW and Daniel Huesman, MSW, LISW, LICDC

Issue Box Theatre Presents: The Exonerated

Issue Box Theatre

I Want You To See Me: Healing Through Story-Telling (7th edition)

Rosie Best and Meg Kraner