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...

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...

 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...