Human Trafficking Awareness

Class & Event Types:

Current Events & Trends, Evenings & Weekends, Health & Wellness

Age Group:

Adults, Ages 18+, Ages 21+, Ages 55+
Registration for this event will be open from August 1, 2024 @ 6:00pm to August 29, 2024 @ 6:00pm.

Program Description

Event Details

Join us for current conversations on relevant and timely topics affecting our community.

This program will help participants to learn more about:

  • popular forms of human trafficking that occur in our community,
  • trafficking risk factors, and
  • the reporting procedures to the proper authorities to help protect vulnerable community members among us, especially our children.

About the presenter:

Dr. Shima Rostami is the Executive Director of Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking (GAHT), a non-profit committed to educating communities and inspiring positive systemic change to end human trafficking. Besides her academic training, she has experience working in several agencies affiliated with the Humanities and Humanitarian efforts. She has served as cabinet, board, and member of numerous organizations and she is a member of the U. S. Attorney's Human Trafficking and Hate Crime Task Forces of Eastern District of Missouri. In an Order in 2022, the Supreme Court of Missouri has appointed Dr. Rostami as a member of the Combating Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence Commission.

blue and black print of the words Gateway alliance against human trafficking

Disclaimer(s)

Accommodations

If you need accommodations for this class, please contact the Library as soon as you are able.