NEW Abolitionists

Jennifer Jones Austin

CEO and Executive Director, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
A child and family advocate moving between the halls of government and the streets of struggling communities, Jennifer Jones Austin takes aim at legislation, policies, and programs that prevent our vulnerable neighbors—and especially our youth—from overcoming challenges and achieving their potential.

“It shouldn’t matter that it’s not your daughter, sister, or friend whose life is being destroyed. Human trafficking is everybody's problem, and we must end it.”

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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