WA State NOW unites with help from the Seattle NOW and Thurston County NOW Chapters for an empowering series throughout June featuring educational webinars, film screenings and insightful film panels!
– ADVOCACY FOUNDATIONS – FEATURED SPEAKERS – EXPERT PANELS – SURVIVOR STRENGTH SHARES –
JUNE 24, 2020: 6:30 PM – 8: 30 PM PST
Module 4: Prevention & Action 4 Advocacy – Graduation
Goals: Overview of Prevention Training Programs for both the public and for various businesses and schools. Review of WA supportive coalition and foundation prevention community networks. Legislation advancements in prevention and further protections for victims. Discussion on loopholes and new ideas to further the expedited prosecution of traffickers. Inspiration & Action for Advocacy.
Featured Speaker: Kyra Doubek, WA Trafficking Prevention (WTP) 501.c3
Kyra is the Executive Director of WTP WA Trafficking Prevention 501.c3 and has over a decade of nonprofit leadership and advocacy experience in Washington, championing the movement to end exploitation and increase services for human trafficking survivors. Throughout Kyra’s career she has led crucial anti-human trafficking initiatives with the Port of Seattle, Attorney’s General Office, and various state and local task forces. She built instrumental relationships with federal and local law enforcement, developing protocols and partnerships to increase unity and enforcement across sectors. Kyra has served on the board of Renton Youth Advocacy Center and the Organization for Prostitution Survivors – OPS 501.c3. A survivor herself, Kyra experienced firsthand the commercial sex landscape in WA. After exiting “the life” Kyra joined the movement to end commercial sexual exploitation.
Featured Speaker: Kelly McCaughey, Shared Hope International 501.c3
Kelly is the Volunteer and Community Engagement Manager at Shared Hope International 501.C3 in Vancouver, WA. Kelly supports and manages volunteers, both locally and nation-wide, serves as a community educator on domestic minor sex trafficking, and heads Shared Hope’s internet safety initiative. Kelly’s passion as an advocate for youth experiencing sex trafficking began as an undergraduate student at Azusa Pacific University, where received her BA in Sociology. While there, she focused her studies on the production of images of child sexual exploitation as a form of trafficking in the U.S. Kelly also served as a lead intern at a global anti-trafficking organization, where she managed volunteers and advocates across the world, as well as assisting in the planning and execution of two global campaigns to spread awareness about human trafficking and Kelly leads Shared Hope International Trafficking Prevention Ambassador’s school program.
Featured Speaker & Yogic Inspirations: Seane Corn, Off the Mat into the World 501.c3
Seane Corn, a celebrated and globally followed internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and public speaker known for her teaching, and service. Since 2007, she has been training leaders of activism through her cofounded organization with Hala Khouri and Suzanne Sterling, Off the Mat, Into the World®. Seane also co-founded the Global Seva Challenge, which has raised over $4 million by activating communities of yoga and wellness through fundraising and awareness efforts. Her first and large seller book, Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action., was published in Fall 2019. Seane is known globally for her impassioned activism by fueling united consciousness and has led the largest educational and transformational workshops. In 2005, she was named “National Yoga Ambassador” for YouthAIDS, and in 2013 received both the Global Green International Environmental Leadership Award and the Humanitarian Award by the Smithsonian Institute. Seane has led an awakening straight from her heart for so many to initiate their own truths of activism to combat sex trafficking slavery both locally and globally.
Seane Corn will guide participants into her Action 4 Advocacy Break-Out Sessions to set their intentions and make commitments.
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