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Webinar Recordings
Missed a session? Catch up here. Each webinar is a free, open conversation about the systems behind human trafficking.
⚠ Content advisory: These webinars address human trafficking, including topics of grooming, coercion, exploitation, and trauma. Some content may be difficult for survivors or those with related experiences. Please engage at your own pace.
Past Sessions
No webinar was hosted in January
The Beginning: How We Got Here and Where We're Headed
Historical roots of human trafficking and the foundational labor case.
- ●Historical roots of human trafficking — from early labor exploitation to modern-day systems
- ●The foundational labor case that shaped how trafficking is understood today
- ●Why a year-long series is needed to address trafficking as a whole system
- ●Introduction to the three-act storytelling arc: Seeing, Understanding, Acting
The Ecosystem Revealed
Trafficking as an interconnected system across industries and institutions.
- ●Human trafficking as a system of connected parts — people, institutions, industries, and everyday choices
- ●Four core drivers that sustain the system: fear, pleasure, greed, and power
- ●How stress, poverty, and unstable conditions increase vulnerability
- ●Transportation systems as enablers of movement at scale
- ●The concept of moral dissonance — what society condemns vs. what it tolerates
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Movement: People, Goods, and Opportunity
Transportation as an invisible thread — and leverage point — for prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership.
- ●Transportation as system infrastructure — trafficking moves through everyday networks
- ●Exploitation in motion: when vehicles become settings for harm
- ●Opportunities for detection within transportation environments
- ●Featured contributors: Erika Keaveney (Freedom Insight) and Ted Greenfield (Invisible Angels)
The Lure: Psychology of Recruitment
Inside the mindset of a trafficker — grooming, coercion, and control.
- ●Human trafficking begins with influence, not force
- ●Stages of grooming: recruitment, trust-building, dependency, isolation, control
- ●How these dynamics operate in everyday environments — campuses, communities, transportation
- ●The Pattern Recognition Framework: from recruitment to control
Vulnerability
Socio-economic conditions that traffickers exploit.
- ●Socio-economic conditions that create vulnerability to trafficking
- ●How poverty, instability, and systemic inequity are exploited by traffickers
- ●The intersection of vulnerability and drift — unconscious patterns that increase risk
- ●Community-level factors that either protect or expose individuals
- ●What prevention looks like when we address root causes, not just symptoms
Next Session
June 25, 2026 — 2 PM PST
The Hidden Wounds
Mental health impacts and survivor-centered healing. Understanding the invisible scars that trafficking leaves behind.
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