Last year, Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco presented the Freedom Light Human Trafficking Training to the Victim Assistance Academy of Nevada (VAAN). VAAN is an affordable statewide, coordinated, comprehensive, academically-based training to build and strengthen victim service agencies. Virtual VAAN is an annual academy for thirty-five (35) participants...
Four years ago, 18-year-old Corinna Slusser left her small town in Pennsylvania and fell victim to a sex trafficking ring in New York City. A few months later, she went missing. However, that didn’t stop law enforcement from successfully prosecuting one of her traffickers for crimes...
Seeking continues its educational partnership with Freedom Light to fight sex trafficking In 2020, Freedom Light provided SeekingArrangement staff with training on the subject of anti-human trafficking, as it relates to the online dating industry. After this valuable experience and the onboarding of new staff members, SeekingArrangement,...
This Thursday, December 16, at 10:00am EST, Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco will speak alongside Retired FBI Special Agent Greg Bristol and human trafficking survivor Tina Frundt on NPR's A1 Program. This panel discussion on trafficking will help wrap up the 2021 year for Freedom Light. Other...
Last week, Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco presented alongside Marisa Trasatti, a Partner at Wilson Elser, to corporate counsel from a variety of industries on the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) litigation and the countermeasures corporations can undertake to reduce risk and deter crime. Industry participants at the...
Does the photo of a naked child used on a record album cover constitute sex trafficking? That question is at the heart of a lawsuit filed this month by Spencer Elden, whose photo was on the cover of Nirvana’s chart-topping “Nevermind” album 30 years ago, against the band and...
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” But in reality, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t instantly free all enslaved people. In Texas,...
Dr. Mehlman-Orozco's latest article in The Crime Report explores the racialization of sex trafficking in America. Sex trafficking was once referred to as “White Slavery” and as the term connotes, the legal application was racialized. American efforts to combat trafficking were initially used to support segregation...
In 2015, Freedom Light Executive Director Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco facilitated the rescue of a trafficked woman. This week, that woman is now a published author, with her first opinion editorial published in the New York Daily News. In her article, entitled Will sex traffickers now run...