Human Trafficking at the Crossroads

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act at 20: Emerging Challenges & Solutions

April 10, 2020
9:00 a.m.– 6:30 p.m.

Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA

This conference will celebrate the successes of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act at its 20-year anniversary. Presenters and panelists will discuss emerging legal challenges to improve protections for survivors, prosecute perpetrators, and prevent human trafficking. The event also will examine new solutions and tools to fight forced labor and sex trafficking. Speakers and panelists will respond to key questions about future anti-trafficking reform, including: What do past successes teach us? What are new, emerging challenges in the fight for legal protection for victims? What principles should govern future legal reform?

The conference will end with a reception and the launch of a newly updated manual for lawyers representing trafficking survivors in Massachusetts.

Sponsors

Speakers & Presenters

  • Jacqueline Bhabha | Professor of the practice of health and human rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of research at Harvard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
  • Shaplaie Brooks | BUILD & Roxbury Youthworks
  • Lou CdeBaca | Senior Fellow at the Yale MacMillan Center and Former Ambassador of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
  • Ziba Cranmer | BU Hariri Institute Spark!
  • Julie Dahlstrom | Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the BU Law Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program
  • Lidia Ferreira | Brazilian Women’s Group
  • Dina Haynes | Professor of Law at New England School of Law
  • Betsy Hutson | Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
  • Cherie Jimenez | EVA Center
  • Beth Keeley | Chief of the Human Trafficking Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
  • Liam Lowney | Executive Director of Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance
  • Mike McCarter | Microsoft
  • John Montgomery | Partner at Ropes & Gray
  • Lindsey Roberson | Senior Legal Counsel at the Human Trafficking Institute
  • Heather Rowe | Chief of Investigations at the Fair Labor Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
  • Martina Vandenberg | Executive Director at the Human Trafficking Pro Bono Center
  • Cynthia Vreeland | Partner at WilmerHale
  • Ann Wilkinson | My Life My Choice
  • Alec Zadek | Partner at Mintz Levin

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