What Traffickers Don't Want Our Community To Know!

Join Rising International for our 8th Annual Fundraising event will highlight the launch of Safe and Sound, a local human trafficking prevention and economic development program. It's designed to train foster youth to earn an income making jewelry, and to teach them to recognize signs of potential exploitation.

Featuring:

Catie Hart, Human Trafficking Survivor and
Deborah Pembrook, Chair of the Coalition to End Human Trafficking in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties

Key Note Speaker
Catie Hart, has developed a special curriculum to keep Rising International's local jewelry makers Safe and Sound from traffickers. Ms. Hart was a victim of sex trafficking for seven years throughout California. After escaping her exploiter in 2006, she went on to earn her BA in sociology from UC Berkeley. Since then, she has been working with the Special Victims Unit Human Trafficking Division at the San Francisco Police Department, consults for various anti-trafficking organizations, and more recently, has trained 2,000 social workers and community partners throughout Northern California. She draws her expertise from all lenses with which she has engaged: as a victim, through law enforcement and now through social welfare. Ms. Hart's event presentation will uncover the strategies that allow sex traffickers and pimps to have power over their victims.