Dr. Barbara Amaya, who is now deceased, was trafficked on the streets of New York City from the age of twelve to twenty-two. She overcame heroin addiction, horrific trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and cancer that was directly related to sex trafficking, to become an award-winning advocate, speaker, best-selling author of Nobody’s Girl and a survivor leader in the movement to end human trafficking and all violence against women and children. In her book Nobody’s Girl, she wrote: “To those who may question why I chose to write this book and how I could share such deeply traumatic, painful, even horrific experiences, here is my response, ‘How could I not?’“