Terry Forliti

Survivor of Sex Trafficking; Former Executive Director, Breaking Free; Anti-Trafficking Research Advisor; Speaker; Trainer

A survivor of many forms of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, Terry Forliti uses her lived experience in direct services, training, policy, and research advising, and received the 2015 Lois M. Christensen Award for Women Who Impact by the Minnesota Women of Today.

“The act of prostitution is the most heinous, invasive abuse that a person can endure.  It is wrong on so many levels and needs to be exposed for what it is—the world’s oldest oppression.  It angers me when the media glorifies prostitution; there is absolutely nothing glamorous about it.  The image during biblical times, the Wild West, and other periods in history that women had a choice and were having fun is false.”