Symposium

PILJ is delighted to announce that its symposium proposal was selected as the winner of Boston University School of Law’s 2021-2022 Symposium Competition! The symposium is entitled Human Trafficking, Then and Now: New Directions and Approaches to Exploitation and will take place on Friday, February 11, 2022. To complement the symposium, PILJ will be publishing a special symposium issue in spring 2022 (Volume 31, Issue 2).

PILJ SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

February 11, 2022

Welcome (10:00am-10:05am)

Kennedy Barber-Fraser, PILJ’s Editor-in-Chief

Opening Address (10:05am-10:10am)

Dr. Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of Law

Welcome Video (10:10am-10:15am)

Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney General

Panel 1: Federal versus State Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking (10:25am-11:25am)

Alyssa Currier-Wheeler, Human Trafficking Institute

Professor Dina Haynes, New England School of Law

Timothy Moran, U.S. Attorney’s Office

Professor Sabrina Talukder, Loyola School of Law

Panel 2: Creative Litigation Efforts to Support Human Trafficking Survivors (11:25am-12:35pm)

Nicole Bell, Living in Freedom Together (LIFT)

Elizabeth Keeley, Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General

Ashleigh Pelto, Domestic Violence Ended, Inc.

Cynthia Vreeland, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Keynote Address (1:30pm-1:50pm)

Rachael Rollins, United States Attorney

Panel 3: Immigration and Human Trafficking (2:00pm-3:00pm)

Professor Heba Gowayed, Boston University

Associate Dean & Professor Kathleen Kim, Loyola Law School

Professor Arifa Raza, Washington State University

Professor Stephanie Richard, Loyola Law School

Panel 4: Intersectional Approach to Human Trafficking Policy and Prevention Efforts (3:10pm-4:10pm)

Jose Alfaro, Lived Experience Expert

Sarah Dohoney Byrne, Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Lidia Ferreira, Brazilian Women’s Group

Dr. Anita Ravi, PurpLE Clinic

Closing Remarks (4:10pm-4:15pm)

Madison Bush, PILJ’s Symposium Editor

Co-Sponsors:

• BU Spark!
• BU Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking
• Human Trafficking Institute
• Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP