Collective Liberty joins MassChallenge’s global network of startups Austin, TX, May 15, 2019 – Yesterday, Collective Liberty was selected to participate in the MassChallenge Texas in Austin 2019 accelerator program. Collective Liberty was one of over 650 other startups to apply for the accelerator located in Austin, Texas. “We are really excited to have the support…
Our CEO was in Sweden this past week with the RENATE network of survivor support agencies. As a group, throughout the week, we discussed the ways human trafficking manifests in our various countries, the ways the laws are written and the strength with which they are enforced. We had guest lectures from global field experts,…
Excellent conversation at our innovation panel on AI and combatting Human trafficking with Financial Crimes. Love the ACAMS crowd, and look forward to collaborating for the next conference! We presented with our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning focused tech partner, ThetaRay. ThetaRay is a global cyber security and big data analytics company with headquarters. They provide a…
Today we are at the U.S. Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking meeting. The investment from the transportation sector in developing a concerted anti-trafficking approach is critical to a thorough and coordinated national response to the ways the various portions of our systems are exploited by human traffickers. The first step is the development and…
Did you catch our CEO Rochelle Keyhan on NBC News national Nightly News broadcast last night? If not – watch the segment below. Soon after our team trained Jupiter Department of Health officials, they identified human trafficking at the massage parlor where Robert Kraft was arrested. Our CEO speaks on NBC Nightly News and in an op-ed about this…
Did you catch our CEO Rochelle Keyhan on NBC News national Nightly News broadcast last night? If not – watch the segment below. Soon after our team trained Jupiter Department of Health officials, they identified human trafficking at the massage parlor where Robert Kraft was arrested. Our CEO speaks on NBC Nightly News and in an op-ed about this…
Recent high profile illicit massage parlor investigations have renewed attention to law enforcement efforts to focus on penalizing traffickers in an attempt to eliminate exploitation and support survivors of human trafficking. From the Dallas operation suing the building owners, to the Florida operation that yielded high profile arrests of billionaire John Child’s and New England Patriots…
Models of behavior used by traffickers to recruit and exploit victims are almost identical across the world. Agricultural labor traffickers in Portugal, for example, fraudulently recruit migrant workers from neighboring nations in the same ways labor traffickers exploit migrant workers here in the United States. A Thomson Reuters Foundation human trafficking reporter recently covered official…
For most of us, human trafficking conjures images of young women being kidnapped by traffickers like in the movie Taken. But, for survivors of R. Kelly, their parents usually knew where they were, and initially, they met with him with stars in their eyes and high hopes for their careers. So, how could his behavior…
Today, February 8, is the International Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking. It is also the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, the patron of trafficking victims and the patron of her home country of Sudan. In 2000, the same year the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the first comprehensive federal law to address…