Join Us to Shine the Light

Turn a spotlight on the perpetrators of human trafficking.
Let survivors and their hope shine.

We have REACHED CAPACITY for the room we have for the conference.
​  Thank you for your interest in ending human trafficking. 

Details

Wednesday, June 26, 2019 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Boxed lunch included
Room: 122 Cannon House Office Building, Capitol Hill 
10:00 am - 1:30 pm Conference
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Congressional Advocacy Visits

The conference will be held in 122 Cannon House Office Building, U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill .  Advance registration is required due to room size constraints and because we prearrange the Congressional visits.

The conference is free.  Registration will close when we reach capacity.

The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center has information on getting to the U.S. Capitol area, and here is other information on ways to get to the Cannon House Office Building by public transportation. 

Please make note of the prohibited items, which include food and bottled water, when entering the U.S. Capitol Complex.

Check out these fascinating facts of the Cannon House Office Building.

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Resources

• Recognize the Signs
• 10 Ways You Can Help
• How Many Slaves Work for You?
• Ways for Faith-based Communities to Get Involved

Watch video of Good Shepherd Sisters combating sex trafficking in Thailand.

Agenda

Speakers will discuss human trafficking (both sex and labor) in the U.S. and overseas and will include survivors of trafficking, policy experts and advocates.

Our 2019 bi-partisan honorary congressional co-chairs are:

• Representative Ann Wagner (R-MO)
• Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
  

Confirmed speakers thus far:

• Bailey - Sex Trafficking Survivor / Self-Advocate
  
• Taina Bien-Aimé - Executive Director of Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, a non-governmental organization that works to end human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children worldwide
• Hilary Chester, PhD - Associate Director, Anti-Trafficking Program,
  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Evelyn Chumbow - Speaker with Survivors of Slavery (Labor Trafficking Survivor)
• Sr. Winifred Doherty, RGS - United Nations Representative for the Congregation
• Lt. Sarah Krebs - Missing Persons Coordination Unit within the Special Investigations Division of the Michigan State Police
• Neha Misra, JD - Solidarity Center, Migration and Human Trafficking Specialist
  

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Co-Sponsors DCBC and
USCCB's Migration & Refugee Services

NAC is happy to partner again with the District of Columbia Baptist Convention in presenting the conference and we welcome our new co-sponsor, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Migration and Refugee Services.

DCBC and NAC both are members of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington and Rev. Andre Towner, DCBC's Minister to Engaging Communities, is a member of NAC's Advisory Board.

Migration and Refugee Services oversees the Bishops' Anti-Trafficking Program of which NAC is a member.

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