Who We Are
We are also professionals in the anti-trafficking field: advocates, first responders, service providers, program leaders, policy experts, educators, trainers, researchers, consultants, founders of NGOs, and professionals working alongside government, law enforcement, healthcare, child welfare, legal systems, and community-based organizations.
Our Values
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Survivor Leadership
Survivors are experts in the systems they have experienced. Their voices, knowledge, and leadership should help shape legislation, programs, funding priorities, prevention strategies, and responses to exploitation.
Freedom & Restoration
Our work extends beyond helping people escape exploitation. We advocate for the conditions survivors need to build safe, stable, independent, and meaningful lives.
Prevention
We believe exploitation can be prevented. Education, early intervention, online safety, healthy relationship education, demand reduction, and stronger protections for children and vulnerable populations are essential.
Inclusion of Lived Experience
There is no single survivor story. We value diverse experiences of trafficking and exploitation, including sex trafficking, labor trafficking, familial trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, forced criminality, and technology-facilitated exploitation.
Opportunity, Not Obligation
Survivors do not owe the movement their stories. Leadership and advocacy should be opportunities available to survivors, never expectations placed upon them.
Courage
We are willing to address difficult issues, challenge ineffective systems, elevate overlooked realities, and advocate for change even when doing so is uncomfortable.
Dignity & Respect
Every person deserves to be treated with dignity, regardless of their history, circumstances, criminal record, exploitation, or stage of healing.
Accountability
Effective anti-trafficking policy must address those who create and profit from exploitation: including traffickers, exploiters, buyers, and systems that enable abuse, while avoiding the criminalization of victims.
Unity
Progress requires collaboration. We bring survivors, advocates, service providers, law enforcement, policymakers, researchers, community organizations, and other partners together around shared solutions.
Trauma-Informed Advocacy
Survivor participation should never require retraumatization. We respect boundaries, privacy, individual readiness, and each survivor's right to determine how, or whether, their lived experience becomes part of their advocacy.
Integrity & Evidence
We pursue policy that is informed by lived experience, research, data, frontline expertise, and measurable outcomes. Our goal is not simply to pass legislation, but to create change that works in practice.
Hope
We believe systems can change, communities can become safer, survivors can thrive, and exploitation can be prevented. Every policy we advance is ultimately about expanding freedom and possibility for those who come after us.
Members
Ashley Faison-Maddox
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Ashley Faison-Maddox
The Legislative Advocacy Lead for the Sacramento Region with California Survivor Coalition and has been recognized as the 2026 Woman of the Year for the 7th Assembly District. As the Founder and Acting Executive Director of Diamond Collective, she curates monthly restorative experiences that empower women who have been trafficked to rediscover confidence, community, and connection.
Bella
A courageous survivor of labor trafficking, a devoted mother of two, and a devoted advocate for survivor-centered legislation. Her journey has shaped her into a powerful voice for change, one that is rooted in resilience, faith, and an unwavering commitment to justice.
Emerald May Rubio
A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, collectivist healer that facilitates healing circles for survivors of sexual violence, as well as the founder of Set Free Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. With over 23 years of experience serving youth and families, she specializes in trauma-informed care for children, adolescents, adults, and neurodiverse individuals.
Hollie Nadel
A business owner and survivor-leader in the anti-trafficking movement with expertise in operations, human resources, policy, public speaking, and anti–money laundering. Her work is rooted in lived experience and focuses on advancing survivor-centered, bipartisan protections and justice through cross-sector collaboration.
Jenna McKaye
A survivor of human trafficking with an incredible life story she now shares through advocacy groups throughout the US. Jenna's extraordinary journey offers hope that inspires others through education and training.
Jewell Baraka
The author of the book Coming of Age on A Porn Set: Trafficked in Porn at 14. For nearly decade she has been using her voice in advocacy as a writer, speaker and trainer in the arena sexual assault in its many words, most often in focus areas of trafficking in porn, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse.
Mariah Rief
A survivor advocate, speaker, and policy consultant focused on addressing online exploitation, trafficking, and solutions fortechnology-facilitated abuse. As a survivor of the federally prosecuted Girls Do Porn sex trafficking case, Mariah brings lived expertise to her work advancing survivor-centered policies and improving systems of support for victims.
Marjorie Saylor
A legislative advocate, subject matter expert on human trafficking policy, and member of the California Survivor Coalition. Her career is dedicated to advancing legislation that honors human dignity and protects vulnerable populations, creating systemic change in public safety, mental health, housing, child welfare, and policy that helps families thrive.
Martha Trujillo
The Founder and Executive Director of Full Circle Orange County, where she leads mentorship, education, prevention, and advocacy efforts for youth and young adults impacted by foster care, juvenile justice involvement, gang affiliation, substance use, and human trafficking.
Megan Escoto
A former first responder, former foster youth, and survivor who now dedicates her career to child-abuse prevention and anti-trafficking advocacy. She holds degrees in Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Behavioral Science, and she is attending Sacramento State with hopes to earn her JD.
Nitzia “Smith”
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Odessa (Dess) Perkins
A survivor-thriver, educator, advocate, and published author of five books, including WARRIOR, I AM A-Z Affirmations for Kids, I AM A-Z Affirmations for Kids Coloring Book, A Human Trafficking 101 Workbook, and The Mirror That Smiles Back children's book. Overcoming grooming, molestation, human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
Ofelia Flores
A Survivor Advocate who refuses to let her pain be wasted. After surviving childhood familial trafficking, exploitation, and addiction, she has dedicated her life to turning her survival into purpose. Like many survivors, she did not realize she was a victim until much later in life, and that awakening became the beginning of her advocacy journey. Through training law enforcement, victim service professionals, and community organizations, as well as public speaking and advocacy, Ofelia helps others recognize the signs of victimization and understand the realities of human trafficking.
Zoe Christine Bellatorre
A lived experience expert with over a decade of experience specializing in child trafficking, survivor-informed care, familial trafficking, and trauma-informed systems response. Zoe is a subject matter expert on familial trafficking. Zoe has served in key roles across leading anti-trafficking organizations, including as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC).