Thursday, April 3, 2008

Campus Welcome

• Bernadette Gray-Little, Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill

Introduction of Keynote Speakers

• Hodding Carter, University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill

Keynote Speaker: Survivor/Advocacy

• Kika Cerpa with Dorchen Leidholdt

Keynote Speaker: Advocacy

• Ken Franzblau, Director of Human Trafficking Prevention and Training, Office of Legal Services, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services

Survivor/Advocacy Q&A

• Moderator: Hodding Carter

Panel: Global Perspectives

• Maya Ajmera, Founder, The Global Fund for Children
• Margaret Samuels, Center for Child and Family Health
• Vivita Rozenbergs, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Anti-Trafficking Focal Point for North America and the Caribbean

Lunch and Keynote Speaker: Communities of Color

• Dr. Esohe Aghatise, Founding Director, Associazione Iroko Onlus, Italy
• Moderator: Tomeiko Ashford Carter, Associate Director, Institute for African-American Research

Featured Speaker : Shutting Down Demand

• Dorchen Leidholdt, Director, Center for Battered Women's Legal Services
• Moderator: Senator Ellie Kinnaird, North Carolina General Assembly

Featured Speaker: Travel and Tourism

• Cynthia Messer, Associate Extension Professor, University of Minnesota Tourism Center
• Moderator: Laura Paolicelli, Executive Director, Orange County Visitors Bureau

Panel: Media and Internet Responsibility

• Carol Smolenski, Executive Director, ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
• Sherry Ricchiardi, Professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism and Senior Writer for the American Journalism Review
• Linda Criddle, LOOKBOTHWAYS Online Safety Consulting
• Moderator: Frank Stasio, Host of The State of Things, WUNC Radio

Reception and Poster Sessions/Photo Exhibits

• Featuring The Devoted, a women's collective tribal dance troupe

Dinner and Featured Reading: "Body and Sold"

• Written by Deborah Lake Fortson, read by Interactive Theatre Carolina under the direction of Ben Saypol
• Introduction: Linnea Smith

Friday, April 4, 2008

Featured Speaker: Legal Research

• Dr. Vanessa Munro, School of Law, University of Nottingham School of Law
• Moderator: Helen Grant, Professor of Law, Elon University

Concurrent Sessions: Prevention

• Session 1: Legal Advocacy
  • Gunilla S. Ekberg, Co-Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International
  • Linda Smith, Shared Hope International
  • Moderator: Sally Greene, Chapel Hill Town Council
• Session 2: Corporate Best Practices
  • Amy O'Neill Richard, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
  • Branka Minic, Director for Global Corporate Affairs and Workforce Development, Manpower Inc.
  • Moderator: Ben Mauk, Senior Coordinator, UNC Office of Economic and Business Development
• Session 3: Government Responses
  • Larry Sachs, Director of Grants Management, Chicago Police Department
  • Stephanie Davis, Policy Advisor on Women's Issues, Office of the Mayor, Atlanta, GA
  • Bridget Maher, Program Specialist, Trafficking in Persons Program, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families.
  • Moderator:

Panel: Child Exploitation

• Col. Sharon Cooper, Physician, Fort Bragg
• Sarah Wood, Detective Constable, Heathrow Intelligence Unit
• Moderators: Sharon Lawrence, Actress; and Robert Murphy, Director, Center for Child and Family Health

Networking Boxed Lunch

Concurrent Working Groups: Developing Action for North Carolina

• Group 1: Law Enforcement and Legal Professions
  • Co-Facilitators: Kayley Tabor, Managing Assistant DA, Chatham County; and Sabrina Garcia, Town of Chapel Hill Police Department
• Group 2: First Responders, Health Professionals, and Victims Services
  • Co-Facilitators: Diane Kjervik, Chair, Health Care Environments Division, UNC School of Nursing; Kory Williford, Victims Services Coordinator, FBI and RIPPLE member.
• Group 3: Educators and Students (Campus Efforts)
  • Co-Facilitators: Kris Macomber, PhD candidate, Sociology, NC State University; and Katia Dantas, Rotary World Peace Fellow, Duke Center for International Development; and Shana Judge, J.D., M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Public Policy, UNC
• Group 4: Private Sector and Media
  • Co-Facilitators: Dr. Jim Johnson, Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; and Sherry Ricchiardi-Folwell
• Group 5: Non-Profit Sector and Faith-Based Groups
  • Co-Facilitators: Linda Smith, Shared Hope International; and Mark Kadel, North Carolina Affiliate Director, World Relief and RIPPLE member

Wrap Up

Dorchen Leidholdt, Director, Center for Battered Women's Legal Services