Ruchira Gupta is a Clinton Global Citizen and an abolitionist, journalist, human rights activist, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.  She is also the Founder-President of Apne Aap Women Worldwide and Apne Aap International, an anti-sex trafficking organization that grew from her work with 22 women in prostitution in India and that have supported more than 20,000 girls and women.  Ms. Gupta has worked to end sex trafficking and lobbied policymakers to shift blame from victims to perpetrators. She testified in the U.S. Senate for passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, addressed the United Nations General Assembly on human trafficking, and helped shape anti-trafficking law and policy in India and globally.  Ms. Gupta is also the author of novels for young people entitled The Freedom Seeker and I Kick and I Fly.