STAR LEADERS

Leading campaigns to find missing people in the Pacific Northwest,. Roxanne advocates for awareness of the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women, who are at risk multiple times the national average. Roxanne is an ally and support of distraught families going through the process of grieving from loss.

An entrepreneur, community advocate, and inspirational speaker, Sophia is on a mission of empowerment of those victimized by domestic sexual abuse and trafficking. Sophia has over 20 years experience in leading grassroot efforts, team leadership, event coordination, community development, financial literacy, fundraising and awareness campaigns.

A Texas-based outreach and training leader, Karla is a recognized advocate and educator against human trafficking. She has contributed substantially to transformative programming for survivors, education of legal professionals, law enforcement operations, and influencing policy.

Alexandria Dean is an Associate Pastor at House Fellowship Ministries Inc. She founded the J R House Inc, a nonprofit organization for those that have been trafficked. She advocates and lobbies for change in laws and responses to child and adult human sex trafficking.

She provides economic empowerment for adult survivors through awareness, outreach, scholarships, survivor-led support groups, trauma therapy, and basic everyday needs. She’s on the board of the Montgomery County Coalition Against Human Trafficking and serves on the Survivor Leader Council for the state of Texas.

An accomplished UCLA graduate and brave lived-experience expert, Rachel leverages her 12 years of experience in education and public speaking to inspire a diverse range of audiences. Her significant contributions have led to an appointment on a national advisory council on human trafficking.

Inspirational public speaker, Andrea takes on the latest in the movement to spark awareness as well as heal. She coaches individuals in their growth processes and helps small businesses thrive. As an entrepreneur, she’s been long engaged in creative marketing and loves joining the energetic work with the x’s and o’s of smart business.

Jenelle transformed her past into a heart-centered service to help victims get heard, served, and transfer themselves from victim status to survivor. She serves on the Colorado Human Trafficking Council and was awarded the FBI DCLA award in 2022 for her efforts and contributions to Human Trafficking cases.

Jennisue Jessen, a triumphant figure in the struggle against human trafficking, drives prevention efforts and takes the long walk with female survivors in their recovery and reintegration into society. She has culminated in an influential policy-shaping role through a presidential appointment, extending her impact both at home and internationally.

An overcomer of abuse and trafficking, Jessa Crisp transformed her past into a force for global change. As a recognized speaker, mentor, and consultant with a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, she embodies resilience and transformation.

Speaker, Author, Actor, Preacher, CEO, Justice Advocate, Entrepreneur, Techie, PhD, Anti-Human Trafficking Prevention Curriculum Developer, Mentor, and founder of multiple organizations, including More Too Life, which provides housing, primary care, restoration, and education to female HT survivors.

Madyson was built up into a porn star by her trafficker, a talent agent, and sold to the elite of the government and the entertainment industry. Her intimate knowledge of the inner workings of these groups makes her voice against injustice in the USA a unique a bold one. She also participates in extraction and victim placement operations for trafficked children.

Shametria goes on big stages as a motivational speaker, sharing her extraordinary comeback story from being trafficked and living in extreme poverty to being a life coach and real estate investor. She loves showing survivors of all kinds of challenges to follow her lead to thriving, step courageously on the stage, and monetize their stories.

This US Military Veteran works together with local, state, and congressional lawmakers and trains law enforcement and medical and mental health professionals to curb human trafficking. He’s advised on draft legislation to help victims and stiffen penalties for predators and is a popular speaker for educational events around the cause.

An energy healer, author, and spiritual teacher who specializes in deprogramming and guiding individuals toward self-healing and spiritual awakening, She trains practitioners in healing arts and through her vlogging has been arming the public to get free of the things that control them.

Through mental and intuitive therapy as well as body work, Eve offers safe, sacred space where the traumatized can rest, heal and rediscover their inner genius. She sees the soul (psyche) leaving hints to our path and purpose. It also places markers of our trauma and impressions needed for healing throughout the treasure map of our bodies.

Her lobbying and legislative work, which began in the 2000s, has led to significant victories in Texas lawmaking. She has steered many bills through passage in the last few years, including one that made Texas the first state where it’s a state jail felony to buy sex and another that required commercial lodging establishments to do training about sex trafficking.

2024 True Honour Award Winner, UK Parliament Woman of the Year, TEDx Speaker, Best-Selling Author, Vocal & Mindset Coach, and Activist Nina motivates, inspires, and educates on resilience, cultural intelligence, forced and child marriage, honor killings, and domestic abuse.

In her speaking, training, and restoration services, Laura uses her broad set of skills learned in overcoming her horrific past in elite-level slavery and cult ritual abuse to help others break free from their programming and prepare healers who choose to do the same for their clients. She is also a courageous voice for the nation's most exploited people.

Cierra’s transformative odyssey has led her from the shadows of trafficking to educating our young ones and adults in prevention and intervention. Today, she hosts customized small group training and consulting to equip people to identify trafficking and intervene on behalf of young ones in trouble.

Beth Bennett, M.A., Ed.D., overcame the trauma of family ritual abuse to become an author, speaker, and agent of healing for others. She now dedicates herself to intense trauma recovery work with others on their path of self-discovery and shares her transformative journey for many in her book, Return to Innocence.

Speaker, educator, and lobbyist for counter-trafficking legislation, Kelly uses her time in politics and community organizing to campaign toward abolition. Kelly also is the Executive Director of Sierra Cares Foundation which serves to repatriate, educate and serve vulnerable women and children in the Makeni region of Sierra Leone.

She is an author, public speaker, podcast host, artist, and survivor, but ultimately, she’s a woman who transformed her trauma into resilience and strength. Now, Amanda uses her knowledge of growth and healing to inspire trauma survivors everywhere that they can become anything.

Sandy is a trusted advisor and trainer for law enforcement, medical and education professionals, social services, and faith-based organizations. With the remarkable ability to inform investigations, collaborate with service providers, and build a bridge of hope with victims of trafficking, Sandy is a powerful force to light up the darkness of trafficking.

A pioneer in the counter-trafficking movement, for 20 years she has opened understanding about exploitation and violence against women in policy discussions at the state, federal and global government levels. She has assisted in the criminal justice system to educate offenders, and has contributed to several books to reach a variety of audiences.

With a wealth of experience and specialized education in public health, Nathan is a driving force in addressing and mitigating violence impacting male communities. His work unites expertise and empathy to guide societal change and support resilience at multiple levels.