Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Presenters
Roy Ahn (Member, Planning Committee) is principal research scientist in the Health Care Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Previously, he served as the founding associate director of the Division of Global Health and Human Rights in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Emergency Medicine and as a full-time faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He also served as a member of the Office on Trafficking in Persons SOAR National Technical Working Group of the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on the Humanitarian Innovation Fund Global Advisory Board on Gender-Based Violence supported by the United Kingdom. He has an M.P.H. from Yale University and an Sc.M. and Sc.D. from Harvard University.
David Banks (Chair, Planning Committee) is a professor of the practice of statistics at Duke University. Previously, he held positions at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is currently the president of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics, and he is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His research areas include models for dynamic networks, dynamic text networks, adversarial risk analysis (i.e., Bayesian behavioral game theory), human rights statistics, agent-based models, forensics, and certain topics in high-dimensional data analysis. He has a master’s degrees in mathematics and statistics and a Ph.D. in statistics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Katherine Chon (Member, Planning Committee) is the founding director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She provides subject-matter expertise and overall leadership of anti-trafficking activities under the purview of ACF. Previously, she was the cofounder and president of Polaris, establishing the global organization’s innovative programs to assist individuals who have experienced trafficking and change the way communities respond to modern slavery. She has a B.S. in psychology from Brown University and an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School.
Harry Cook (Presenter) is the data management and research specialist for Migrant Protection and Assistance Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He serves as IOM’s primary reference point for data on the vulnerability, trafficking, exploitation, and abuse of migrants. He leads IOM’s research agenda on these topics, as well as policies, procedures, tools, and technology solutions for the collection, management, and analysis of such data. He has an M.Sc. in comparative politics from the London School of Economics.
Sara Crowe (Presenter) leads the Data Analysis Program at Polaris, where she is responsible for the quality and utility of one of the largest human trafficking operational datasets in the world. Her work includes support for the data infrastructure of agencies across the globe through consultation and by creating, deploying, and managing a standardized data scheme and basic user interface for human trafficking data management in a secure environment. She also works with the International Organization for Migration to align competing schemes and implement technical solutions that allow for increased information sharing while maintaining the privacy of survivors through the Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative. She previously worked in various roles for Polaris’s U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. She has an M.A. in peace studies and conflict resolution from Georgetown University.
Lauren Damme (Presenter) serves as the senior evaluation research adviser in the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking (OCFT) in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. In her role on OCFT’s monitoring and evaluation team, she develops strategic guidance and planning and provides technical guidance and management for the impact evaluations and survey research. Previously, she worked on monitoring and evaluation in more than two dozen countries around the world and has served in multilateral U.N. organizations and with the U.S. and Japanese governments. She has a B.Sc. in survey research from Iowa State University and an M.Sc. in development management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Meredith Dank (Presenter) is a research professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her areas of focus include human trafficking, teenage dating violence, LGBTQ issues, victimization, and qualitative methods. She has served as the principal investigator on more than a dozen human trafficking studies funded by the U.S. Departments of Justice, State, and Health and Human Services, conducting research in more than a dozen countries. Her writings include a book on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. She has a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Michaëlle De Cock (Presenter) is head of the Research and Evaluation Unit in the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Her research focuses on methodologies to survey and estimate forced labor and trafficking of adults and children. She has been actively involved in key global estimates published by the ILO and has been developing a series of national surveys on forced labor and trafficking of adults and children. Her work on an expert working group resulted in guidelines on measurement of forced labor endorsed by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians in 2018. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI.
Kelly Dore (Presenter) is one of the founders of the National Human Trafficking Survivor Coalition, and she is a member of the Denver Anti-Trafficking Alliance and the Global Survivor Alliance. She works extensively on state and federal legislation to educate and advocate on behalf of minor victims of trafficking. She also serves as the legislative liaison for United Against Slavery and as an ambassador for Shared Hope International. She has advised the United Nations, the Vatican, and state and federal entities, and she has written a familial trafficking identification guide for medical professionals and educators. She has a BSW in social work and political science from Colorado State University.
Davina Durgana (Member, Planning Committee) is a senior statistician at the Walk Free Foundation and an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University. She is a report author and statistician on the Global Slavery Index of the Walk Free Foundation. Her current work focuses on constructing modern slavery models and profiling vulnerability to this crime in the United States and around the world. She is a recipient of the Statistical Advocate of the Year award by the American Statistical Association for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and modern slavery. She has a B.A. from the George Washington University, an M.A. from the Sorbonne and the American University of Paris, and a Ph.D. from American University.
Annick Febrey (Presenter) is the director of government and corporate relations at the Human Trafficking Institute. Previously, she worked for Human Rights First as senior associate for anti-trafficking, leading advocacy efforts directed at disrupting the business of human trafficking. Her past work also included Oxfam America and the International Justice Mission, where she advocated for policies to make U.S. foreign assistance more transparent and accountable and campaigned for more effective U.S. anti-human trafficking policies abroad. She has a B.A. in policy studies from Dickinson College.
Kelly Gleason (Presenter) is the data science lead for the Delta 8.7 project at the Centre for Policy Research at United Nations University and data science officer for the International Labour Organization. She works on the development and dissemination of Delta 8.7, the Alliance 8.7 knowledge platform, which aims to promote evidence-based policy making and advance the scientific study of child labor, forced labor, human trafficking, and modern slavery. Previously, she worked in data analytics and research at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on advanced quantitative methodology and the translation and delivery of complex research findings into accessible information through digital tools and data visualization. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Patrick Hannon (Presenter) is director of the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The legal mandate of the interagency center is to deliver intelligence and analysis to law enforcement personnel and policy makers. Previously, he served as a career intelligence officer and held a number of leadership positions in both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Intelligence Community. He also previously worked for the Director of National Intelligence and with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. He has a B.A. in criminal justice and political science from the College at Brockport, State University of New York.
Carolyn Hightower (Presenter) is the deputy director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In support of the office’s anti-trafficking programs, her portfolio includes the trafficking victim services programs, training and technical assistance, and public awareness activities. Previously, she served as principal deputy director of the Office for Victims of Crime in the U.S. Department of Justice. She has an M.P.A. with a concentration in judicial administration from the University of Southern California.
Carolyn Huang (Presenter) is an international relations specialist in the Research & Policy Division of the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and
Human Trafficking at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Her work covers probabilistic and nonprobabilistic methodologies for prevalence estimation of child labor and forced labor. She oversees research produced under global projects, including the Bridge Project, a forced labor project that supports country efforts to conduct statistical research, and the Measurement, Awareness-Raising, and Policy Engagement (MAP16) Project, which supports the development of research tools. She has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina.
Jessica Hubley (Presenter) is cofounder and CEO of AnnieCannons, a software consultancy that is optimized for the success of women and minorities, working to develop survivors of human trafficking into software professionals. Previously, she worked at Latham & Watkins LLP and Dickstein Shapiro LLP and then in her own firm, advising emerging Internet, cloud, and digital media companies on general commercial matters, with a particular focus on privacy issues, intellectual property management, and distribution strategies. She also previously served as general counsel and chief privacy officer at Stride Health, Inc. She has a B.A. and an M.A. from Emory University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
James Johndrow (Presenter) is on the faculty in the Statistics Department at Stanford University. He is also a statistical consultant for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and has been a consultant for DataPad, eBay, and Treasure Data. His research interests include Markov chain Monte Carlo and scalable Bayesian computation, high-dimensional statistics, and algorithmic fairness. His more applied and methodological work includes casualty estimation, large-scale experimentation in industry, and genetics. He has a B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in statistics from Duke University.
Erin Klett (Presenter) is the senior director for research and policy at Verité, a global nongovernmental organization with a mission to ensure decent, safe, and fair working conditions for workers worldwide. She oversees the design and implementation of research, tools, capacity building, and stakeholder-engagement programs for governments, companies, international organizations, and civil society groups across a variety of sectors and regions. Her current focus is on programs to stem the human trafficking and forced labor of migrant workers in global supply chains. She has an M.A. in international relations and affairs from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
Ryan Kling (Presenter) is a principal associate at Abt Associates in the fields of criminal justice and HIV. His work as a quantitative researcher and
programmer uses survey and administrative data to investigate a wide range of subjects, which include estimating the size of chronic drug users in U.S. communities, evaluating HIV intervention programs in Vietnam and China, consumer expenditures on illicit drugs, and the criminal justice response to human trafficking. He currently serves as Abt’s project director for the Bureau of Justice Statistics Federal Justice Statistics Program, charged with the maintenance and expansion of its use for policy and research topics. He has an M.A. in economics from Boston College and completed graduate studies in public policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Amy Leffler (Presenter) is a social science analyst at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she leads the trafficking in persons’ research portfolio. She cochairs the Research and Data Committee of the Senior Policy Operating Group, which is the federal interagency working group dedicated to anti-trafficking. She also works on a range of victimization topics. Previously, she served as an executive fellow at NIJ and as a congressional fellow, working in the Senate on labor and economics issues. She has an M.S.W. from the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in social work from Boston College.
Abigail (Abby) Long (Presenter) currently serves as a program adviser in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) at the U.S. Department of State, where she earlier worked as a performance measurement specialist focusing on monitoring and evaluation. Previously, she worked as an implementer of development projects for an international organization and for the Evidence in Governance and Policy network based at Columbia University. She also previously worked at Humanity United, a private philanthropic organization focused on ending human trafficking and mass atrocities. She has B.A. in international relations and Spanish from Syracuse University and an M.A. in international relations from the University of Cape Town.
Megan Lundstrom (Presenter) is the founder and director of Free Our Girls. She is also cofounder of Avery Research & Consulting, a partnership between academia and survivors of the sex trade. She is the author of the cultic theory of pimp-controlled sex trafficking, which has been published internationally through the United Nations. She also assisted at the University of Northern Colorado with the creation of the largest qualitative dataset in U.S. history on commercially sexually exploited women. Her current focus is on better understanding the typologies of sex buyers and evaluating demand reduction models. She has a B.S. in finance and is a graduate student in the Sociology Department at the University of Northern Colorado.
Megan Price (Member, Planning Committee) is executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. She designs strategies and methods for statistical analysis of human rights data for projects in many locations, including Colombia, Guatemala, and Syria. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court; on the board of directors for Tor; and a research fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science. She has a B.S. and an M.S. in statistics from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. in biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Manisha Shah (Presenter) is vice chair and professor of public policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a faculty affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany. Working as an economist, her primary research interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, and international development, and she is currently leading projects in India, Indonesia, and Tanzania. She has also worked extensively in Ecuador and Mexico. She has a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Shively (Presenter) is a senior associate at Abt Associates. He directs federally funded studies of human trafficking, including research on victimization, perpetration, and system responses to both victims and offenders. He also operates the Demand Forum website that documents prostitution and sex trafficking prevention efforts in more than 1,650 communities throughout the United States, and he has cataloged more than 1,100 victim service providers in 600 communities. His service in applying research on human trafficking to practice and policy includes being a member of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Task Force and the Regional Human Trafficking Workgroup at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Bernard Silverman (Member, Planning Committee) is professor of modern slavery statistics for the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham. His research has ranged widely across theoretical and practical aspects of statistics, with a focus on computational statistics, researching the ways that computing power has changed one’s ability to collect, analyze, understand, and use data. Previously, he served as chief scientific adviser to the U.K. Home Office. His current research portfolio encompasses modern slavery, security, official statistics, research integrity, and science and technology for policy and government. He has an M.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. and Sc.D. from the University of Cambridge.
Hanni Stoklosa (Presenter) is the executive director of HEAL Trafficking and an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and she holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She works as an expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the well-being of trafficking survivors through a public health lens. She has advised the United Nations; the International Organization for Migration; and the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and State and has testified before Congress. Her research on trafficking has been carried out in a diversity of settings, including Australia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, the Philippines, South Sudan, Taiwan, and Thailand. She has an M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Kyle Vincent (Presenter) serves as an independent statistical consultant and adviser. His research involves developing innovative network sampling strategies that can be used to efficiently study elusive or hard-to-reach populations. The work has been motivated by challenges encountered in studies of hidden populations, such as those comprised of injection drug users and human trafficking victims. Some of this work has been applied to empirical studies in collaboration with a range of organizations and other researchers. He received a Ph.D in statistics from Simon Fraser University.
Sheldon Zhang (Member, Planning Committee) is a professor of criminology and justice at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research focuses on transnational human trafficking and smuggling activities. He has published two books on human smuggling and trafficking issues, edited or coedited two special journal volumes on human trafficking, and published numerous articles on sex trafficking in Crime, Law, and Social Change, the British Journal of Criminology, and Global Crime. He has masters’ degrees in print journalism and criminology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California.
