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, Rochelle Dalla, PhD, MS, Emma Dubisz, Oluwatosin Alabi, and Nick Nondorf

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

Chamunogwa Nyoni, PhD

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

Aaron Murnan, PhD, LMFT, Gwen Jackson, MA, LaRose Daniels, CDCA, PRS, Jess Doone, PRS, and Susan Thompson, BS, CDCA, AAS

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

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

Paul McAnulty

Improving Informed Consent for Child Brides in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research: Time to Face Up to the Failures in Ethical-Legal Frameworks

Busisiwe Nkosi, PhD, MSW, LSW (she/her) and Ann Strode, PhD (she/her)

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, Geselle Saclot, RSW, Fatima Lozano, and Jaden Kaye Empuerto, RSW

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

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

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

Danielle Thomas, EdD

Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in the Workplace

Moses Atogo Unongu, MSyI

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

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

Using Poetry, Psychodrama, and Prose in the Healing of Trauma

Mac (Mary) Morrison, LPCC, MAT

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

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

Madeline Stenersen, PhD (she/her), Kaliyah Gardner, MSW, MEd (she/he/they), 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

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

Sarah Warner, JD, MPA

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

Kirsten Byrnes, PsyD, ABPP

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

Alexandria LeZion, MA (she/her)

If Treatment Works, Why Do Survivors Still Feel Broken?

Celia Williamson, PhD, LISW-S

Regulated Leaders, Safer Services: What Reactive Decision-Making Costs the People We Serve

Alia Azariah (she/her)

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

Shirley Crane

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)

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

Human Trafficking in Schools: Building a Coordinated Response

Hannah Swift, QBHS (she/her)

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

Jessica Neham, MA (she/her) and Sofia Jimenez-Omaña (she/her)

Reproductive Organ Trafficking and the Law of Unnamed Harms

Anonymous HT Survivor, CSW

Responsible AI for Child Protection and the People Who Power It

Sherrie Bosisto, BA

The Belonging Project: A Play and an Attitude Adjustment

Rosie Best, LISW-S, Nora Riggs, LISW, and Rachel Daley, LISW

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

Annamaria Szakonyi, PhD (she/her)

Third-Party Facilitators and the Demand for Survivors’ Stories

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

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