Rachel Moran

Survivor of Prostitution; Author; Founder, SPACE International; International Speaker; Feminist Campaigner; Activist; and Anti-Sexual-Exploitation Activist

Rachel Moran is an Irish women’s rights activist, international speaker, feminist campaigner, and bestselling author of Paid For:  My Journey Through Prostitution.  She was homeless by the age of fourteen and then prostituted on the streets and in the brothels of Ireland for seven years.  Ms. Moran founded SPACE International in 2012 and expanded it internationally in 2013, as a survivor-activist network from around the world working to elevate survivor voices, influence policy, programming, and advocacy.  Ms. Moran has worked tirelessly to advance the Equality Model, a legal framework for addressing commercial sex and trafficking, which shifts criminal liability away from exploited individuals and onto buyers and facilitators, to reduce market demand.  She has presented at the United Nations, the European Parliament, Westminster Parliament, and in countries around the world about the human rights violations inherent in the global sex trade.

“Buying your way inside someone else’s body is a pathological act.”