We are excited to be partnering with ECPAT-USA to provide this webinar and training session! Last year, Soundings Connect signed The Code that pledged our commitment to help end the commercial exploitation of children through education and awareness.
Freelance meeting and event professionals make up a large and important population of the events industry. In this presentation, you'll learn about human trafficking, how to identify potential victims, and ways that you can join in the fight against trafficking even as events have transitioned virtually.
Presented by:
Yvonne Chen, Director of Private Sector Engagement, ECPAT-USA
Key Take-Aways Discussed:
Understanding Human Trafficking
What can trafficking look like in in the travel, hospitality and meetings & events industries
Ways to join the fight against child trafficking
Learn more about the presenters:
As the Director of Private Sector Engagement, Yvonne Chen ensures businesses and relevant stakeholders understand how human traffickers and child exploiters use business structures to exploit victims and identify, develop, and/or deploy tools and best practices to stop it.
Ms. Chen brings a unique perspective having been a live-in coordinator for a residential program for those who have experience sex trafficking. Ms. Chen is a fluent Mandarin speaker and national expert on working with East Asian communities trafficked in massage parlors. She has a decade of experience providing direct services to trafficked persons. She also has trained and educated tens of thousands of community members and professionals to understand human trafficking and identify trafficked people. Prior to coming to ECPAT-USA, Ms. Chen worked as a Supervising Program Manager at another anti-trafficking agency and has experience working with different refugee populations in the States and South Africa.