Through awareness of the painful reality of modern-day trafficking and slavery, Sister Kathleen Coll, Mary DeFusco, and Sister Terry Shields came together with Sister Teresita Hinnegan and Marissa Bluestine from various disciplines—education, medical, social work, and law—to co-found Dawn’s Place.  At Dawn’s Place, they designed a program to proactively support women affected by commercial sexual exploitation by providing services, raising awareness through education, generating prevention, public policy reform, and community collaboration.  Viewing commercial sexual exploitation as a fundamentalviolation of human rights, Dawn’s Place works to improve the lives of women trapped by, or at risk for commercial sexual exploitation, by providing housing, trauma recovery services, vocational training, and other services.