Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak interview Tiffany Wong, past president of Live2Free at Vanguard University. They discuss fair trade products, Live2free’s mission, and their approach to community and school presentations.

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Dave [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 8, recorded in July 2011. Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie [00:00:28] And my name is Sandra Morgan.

Dave [00:00:30] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, glad to be back with you again today to talk more about how we can play a role, all of us in ending human trafficking and continuing our conversation about partnership that we had from episode number 7.

Sandie [00:00:52] And one of the groups that we want to make sure we develop opportunities for reaching out and having partnerships with is our young people that are students in high schools and colleges and universities.

Dave [00:01:06] And that’s actually the focus of our topic today is talking with someone who’s been an integral role of really raising awareness on about human trafficking and how we can all play a part in ending human trafficking and not just at the government level and with large organizations, but also the student level and raising awareness among college students who not only can learn about this issue, but can really be strong advocates for being able to address it. And we have a guest here today to speak to that.

Sandie [00:01:38] And I have to really key off of your words strong advocates, strength in energy and in passion and in commitment. And when we offer opportunities for university, college and high school students to get involved, they can do hands and feet work that some of us who are a little more worn might not have the same kind of capacity and energy level to complete. So I’m very excited to introduce Tiffany Wong who was this past year’s president at Live2Free Club at Vanguard University and actually received congressional recognition for her work on this and in the area of outreach and awareness in Orange County.

Dave [00:02:24] Very cool.

Sandie [00:02:25] So, Tiffany, welcome.

Tiffany [00:02:27] Hi.

Sandie [00:02:29] So, Tiffany, I have a list of questions here I want to ask you. I think that I want people to know a little bit about you. And did you have a background in human trafficking when you first started working with Live2Free?

Tiffany [00:02:45] No. And I actually barely knew anything about human trafficking. And it was only after some time with the club that taking a human trafficking class that I learned quite a lot.

Sandie [00:02:58] So and I also want folks to know that you’re bilingual. What other language do you speak?

Tiffany [00:03:05] I speak Cantonese and English.

Sandie [00:03:08] Cantonese. So, but you can understand Mandarin as well, right? Chinese.

Tiffany [00:03:15] Well, that’s one of my goals.

Sandie [00:03:17] One of your goals. That was a really important and important aspect of what we could deliver as as a club in our community. So let’s talk about when you heard about human trafficking and you really wanted to do something, how did Live2Free provide that opportunity for you?

Tiffany [00:03:40] Well, Live2Free goes out to schools and talks to students about human trafficking. And then we also they also did a like a summer internship where they went to clinics and have a clinic, police departments and libraries where they were able to speak to the bigger community about human trafficking.

Sandie [00:04:06] So that ...