Dallas Symposium on Human Trafficking

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    Fighting For Freedom
    Dallas Symposium on Human Trafficking
    Saturday, October 20, 2018
    9:00am – 2:30pm
     
    Agenda                             

    8:15a Registration Begins

    9:00a   Welcome – The Rev. Dr. Chris Girata 

    9:10a   Episcopal Diocese Message – Rt. Rev. George Sumner
                                                           
    9:20a   Dallas Trafficking Overview – Dallas City Council Member Jennifer Staubach Gates  www.dallascityhall.com

    9:25a  Texas Overview & Task Force Update – Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General  http://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/

    9:45a “Profile of the Trafficker” - Dr. Vanessa Bouche’, TCU Professor of Political Science www.vanessabouche.com 

    10:00a – 10:30a – Restore & Empower – A Survivor Discussion

    - Kim Robinson – CEO, New Friends New Life  http://www.newfriendsnewlife.org/
     - Rebekah Charleston – Survivor Leader, Exec Dirof Valiant Hearts   http://www.valianthearts.org/
     - Kristin McWilliams – Thistle Farms Magdalene Program http://www.thistlefarms.org/
     - Kimberly Stevens – Thistle Farms Magdalene Program
     - Dr. Vanessa Bouche’, Moderator

    10:30a Break

    10:45a Panel Discussion “How Dallas is Changing the Game for Child Sex Trafficking”
    - Carmen White – Dallas County DA

    www.dallascounty.org/department/da/staff/carmen_white.php

    - Kristen Howell – Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County http://www.cacdc.org/
    - Carrie Wright – Director of High Risk Youth, Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center http://www.dcac.org/
    - Catherine De La Paz – Detective, Dallas Police Department http://www.dallaspolice.net/
    - George Lynch, Moderator – Chief Executive Officer, Traffic 911 http://www.traffic911.com/

    11:30a Campus Activities

    North Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking Information Exchange – Coke Activities Room & Garden Cloister

    Artifacts of Human Trafficking art exhibition- Parlor

    Lunch provided by In-N-Out Burger

    1:30p Rev. Becca Stevens – Founder, Thistle Farms  http://www.thistlefarms.org/  
    2:30p Close – The Rev. Dr. Chris Girata