NEW Abolitionists

Lori Silverbush and Tom Colicchio

Filmmaker; Chef/Food Advocate
Lori Silverbush is an award-winning screenwriter and director who uses fiction and non-fiction film to ignite dialogue about critical issues of our day. Tom Colicchio is a critically acclaimed chef with restaurants across the United States and a judge on the series Top Chef. As co-director and producer of the film A Place at the Table, a film that examines the shocking paradox of hunger in the wealthiest nation on earth, Ms. Silverbush and Mr. Colicchio stand at the forefront of a national movement to end hunger in the United States.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King

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“The #MeToo movement must include sexual trafficking, sexual exploitation, and prostitution as core violations because they are the nth degree of abuse, violence, and rape. Prostitution is not a victimless crime or an equivalent exchange; demand creates a giant market which traffickers fill with their human products.”

– Mira Sorvino

“It’s impossible to describe the experience of being owned by someone else, but what I can tell you is that I will work tirelessly for the rest of my life to stop other people from having to experience what I did.”

– Kenya, Trafficking Survivor