Emancipation Nation

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What happens when families that work in agriculture are exploited or trafficked? Join us and Diane Mull from End Child Labor to learn about unscrupulous farm labor contractors, paying taxes with few benefits, and how children have to manage going to school and also working the fields  

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Cynthia Luvlee-Austin is non-profit start up specialist and founder of “Shyne San Diego” who uses her Survivor Economic Equity Program to teach survivors the skills to run their own businesses by giving them the tools to understand how to be valued and not exploited. She mentors these budding entrepreneurs from idea conception to finished product and even connects survivor-led business owners to investors. She began this meaningful work by asking a simple question, “How will survivors make money?”

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Listen to this short episode of what happened when four systems that interacted with a 14-year-old trafficked girl missed all of the signs and failed to respond to the risk factors. 

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After interviewing many guests from across the U.S. and around the world, Dr. Williamson answers questions about her work, why she started the podcast, her self-care routine and many more. Tune in! No question was off limits in this episode.

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Anti-trafficking coalitions are often the critical core of local anti-trafficking work in a community. Dr. Celia McIntosh discusses the Rochester Regional Coalition Against Human Trafficking in New York and their work to address human trafficking in their community. Because of her expertise in health care, she has also established a healthcare protocol and informs the policies and practices in her community to identify and respond to victims of human trafficking. 

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It starts with the sale of a simple cup of coffee and moves to providing funding for research projects focused on understanding the role played by perpetrators, which includes human traffickers and others who benefit from slavery. Matthew Clarke and wife Bella Rossini are the driving forces behind Teardrops to Joy, a sustainable commercial enterprise that uses profits from the sale of coffee to fund Freedom Keys Research which investigates and documents approaches to effective antislavery intervention founded on an understanding of restorative justice.

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B.A. Crisp survived her experience to offer a successful series of books on human trafficking loosely based on real events.  She also promotes awareness in strip clubs across the U.S. and abroad. Does B.A. stand for Bad Ass? Listen and draw your own conclusions.

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Dr. Marlene Carson, a thriver entrepreneur, discusses her pursuit to transform survivors and others who are afraid to pursue their own dreams to become thrivers in business. She uses her “Peer-preneur Network” to assist anyone interested in transformation. This episode is packed with resources, information on housing for survivors, interesting books written by survivors, including the “12 Steps to Transform the Exploited Soul” and a new book coming out called, “Lotion Your Ass”.

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It starts with a simple cupcake and conversation and moves to providing nonjudgmental support to meet the needs of dancers, trafficked individuals, and those in the adult entertainment industry.  In 2020. without government grants or nonprofit contracts, the Cupcake Girls have met the needs of clients across 26 states with the support of 14 staff, 15 interns, 185 volunteers, and 400 community partners providing approximately 1.1 million dollars in services.

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Whether you call it case management, direct service work, care coordination, or whole-person advocacy, the life changing work you do with survivors should be as effective as possible. Not because you “think” it is, but because you use best practices. Listen to this episode to better understand the three fears direct service workers have in working with survivors of human trafficking. Also listen to learn how effective case managers assess those ten critical areas that are common issues and needs of human trafficking survivors.