How the Association Industry *Must* Fight Human Trafficking

Association professionals often travel for business, attending conferences and meetings, visiting hotels, and likely passing by human trafficking taking place right under our noses.  

Find out what sex trafficking looks like, what to do if you suspect it is happening, and what some industry insiders are doing to proactively fight it.

Our guests will help us understand the issue a little better and how it impacts associations and association professionals. Guests on this episode include:

1. Eliza M. Reock, who is a Program Specialist, in the Child Sex Trafficking Case Analysis Division of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

2. MaryAnne Bobrow, who is an associations and meetings professional who has spoken widely on this topic to planners with her keynote, “SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING”

3. John Carter, the producer of the new documentary AMERICAN EXPLOITATION: THE SLAVES AMONG US

Resources

1. TraffickCam app - https://www.traffickcam.com/
2. The Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct - https://www.ecpatusa.org/
3. American Exploitation: The Slaves Among Us (documentary) http://american-exploitation.webflow.io/
4. Learn more about child sex trafficking - http://www.missingkids.org/theissues/trafficking
   Child Sex Trafficking Identification Resource - http://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/pdfs/CST-Resource-blue-1.pdf
   
5. Child Sex Trafficking in America: A Guide for Parents and Guardians -http://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/pdfs/NCMEC%20CST%20fact%20sheet_ParentGuardian.pdf
6. Celebrity Sex Cult - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nxivm-clare-bronfman-seagram-beverage-heiress-among-6-arrested-connection-to-alleged-sex-cult-allison-mack-keith-reniere/