I am blessed to work at the intersection of my passions, and enjoy creating educational, informational, and practical technical assistance materials to support practitioners in their work as well as survivors in their healing.
My work includes works that I am the sole or primary author for, as well as projects I’ve supervised, managed, or co-authored ; collaborative projects ; reports, summaries, and fact sheets ; trainings and webinars ; storytelling ; other media ; and creative and academic writing .
Primary authorship
Research report on what a survivor-driven approach to storytelling for social change might include.
Regional report for North America for the Modern Slavery PEC research project on engagement of lived experience in international policy and programming
Overview of a public health, harm reduction, human rights approach to trafficking prevention.
Manual for rape crisis centers to better respond to human trafficking survivors and collaborations.
Supplemental materials for DFSA prevention strategies in 2SLGBTQIA+, kink-friendly, and other sex positive communities.
Facilitation guide for using the Let’s Talk About It videos in education and social media
Let’s Talk About it social media and online safety video campaigns, one featuring peer-to-peer support and one featuring a caregiver conversation.
Supervised, managed, and/or co-authored
Self-paced, syllabus-style study guide for teachers who want to better support their 2SLGBTQIA+ Students
Brave Space? Safe Space? Consider this alternative, based on adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy
Toolkit for incorporating horticulture-based approaches into campus sexual violence prevention and response
Matrix guide for local educational authorities to determine the human trafficking prevention and awareness curriculum that fits their needs
Guide for college and university campuses to better prevent and address human trafficking on their campuses
Documents to support school staff and sexual health educators in teaching consent to youth with I/DD
Over the winter of 2021-2022, I was project manager for the production of Spanish-language videos similar to our “Let’s Talk About It” campaign, although the script-writing and on-set advising was contracted with two brilliant colleagues who are native speakers.
Overview of the National Survivor Network’s approach to trafficking prevention.
This report articulates the findings of a months-long working group of experienced anti-trafficking leaders with lived experience outlining harms survivors experience within the anti-trafficking sector as well as how we can make repair. Executive summary available.
Highlights and overview of Care, Self-Determination, and Safety
This workbook offers practical guidance and considerations for survivors wanting to explore where their boundaries are around public storytelling, how to leverage their stories for impactful advocacy, and how to craft a compelling, survivor-developed story appropriate for each audience.
Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience: a framework and assessment for measuring and increasing lived experience leadership across the spectrum of engagement
Collaborations and Review
Research consultant and contributor to the Modern Slavery PEC report: A review of current promising practices in the engagement of people with lived experience to address modern slavery and human trafficking
Short docu-series about human trafficking in North Carolina produced by a local broadcasting company.
Modern Slavery PEC report: “Assessing the Case for a Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking”
Evidence-informed curriculum for teaching 7th, 8th, and 9th graders about trafficking in the sex trades.
Reports, summaries, and fact sheets
Plain-language, accessible overview of a statewide sexual violence prevention State Action Plan
Guidelines for hosting a safer, inclusive space for speakers and trainers, particularly survivors and those with other marginalized identities
Demographics report for an anonymous leadership team in order to balance safety, accountability, and transparency.
Final report of a global convening on how to improve lived experience engagement in modern slavery research.
2022 Report of the National Survivor Network
Webinars and training
Storytelling
and in telling our truths and living our authenticity, we empower others to do the same
Conversation with a friend and colleague about our experiences in the anti-human trafficking movement
VIDEO
Sex Ed Storytelling at The Pinhook, Durham, NC, June 6, 2019 — a fundraiser for SHIFT NC.a story about exploring my own identity as a sex educator and sexuality as a queer parent through sitting with my response to my child coming out as asexual
Outfluenced: An Evening of Queer Storytelling | Hidden | Chapel Hill, NC, March 28, 2019a story about trying to remember freedom in my body and self, and perhaps even reclaim it in a new and more expansive way
VIDEO
Sex Ed Storytelling at Motorco, Durham, NC, December 13, 2018 — a fundraiser for SHIFT NC.a story about how my personal “Sex Talk” with my own children got weirder and weirder with each kid the longer I worked in sexual health and consent as a field and profession
I was interviewed for this 2023 IndieWire piece about how Hollywood representations of human trafficking often miss the mark, misrepresent what is needed to end trafficking, and promote rescue fantasies rather than real prevention.
I wrote this 2023 piece for Open Democracy’s Beyond Trafficking and Slavery feature as part of a Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre research project on meaningful lived experience engagement.
I was interviewed for this 2020 Insider piece on sex trafficking survivors’ perceptions and experiences of the QAnon conspiracy theory phenomenon and ensuing activity/”activism.”
Behind Closed Doors Yet In Plain Sight: Human Trafficking In North Carolina episode of The State of Things on WUNC. I provided expertise on sexual violence, human trafficking, prevention and root causes, and LGBTQ youth.
Part two of my interview with the Emancipation Nation podcast by Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute founder, Celia Williamson . In this episode, “Trauma, Trauma Survivors, and the Empowerment Model ,” I discuss trauma, some of my experiences doing this work as a survivor of multiple forms of violence, and why survivor-centered, empowerment-based support is essential for survivors of human trafficking.
In this 2023 podcast , I discuss the findings from my 2023 research on what a survivor-driven model for storytelling for social change could be. Plus, hear from other researchers around the globe about meaningful survivor engagement.
I was interviewed for this 2023 Inside Edition piece about how Hollywood misrepresentations lead to reduced understanding in the general public about how trafficking happens and what survivors need.
I was the special guest for this 2020 episode of the Multiamory podcast , providing expertise and information about intimate partner violence in polyamory and polyamorous relationships.
Part one of my interview with the Emancipation Nation podcast by Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute founder, Celia Williamson . In this episode, “‘Becoming the Voice for the Voiceless’ is not Empowering to Survivors. In Fact, Survivors are Speaking—But We May Not Be Listening,” I discuss prevention, the NC landscape, the Teach2Reach curriculum from UNC School of Social Work, and working with LGBTQ Survivors. Mentioned: FORGE , Point Source Youth .