Conference 2025

Pathways To Prevention – February 5-7, 2025

Conference 2025

February 5-7, 2025

The conference will explore avenues of human trafficking prevention that will include the use of tools like shareholder advocacy, understanding intergenerational trauma, and skills for parents, as well as awareness around the topics of forced migration, labor trafficking, and trafficking on college campuses.

BWI Airport Marriott
1743 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, MD 21090

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SCHEDULE

Wednesday 2/5/2025

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Optional: Speakers Bureau Training
4:00-6:00 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Welcome
6:15 p.m. Opening Prayer and Mass – Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore
6:30-7:00 p.m. Dinner is served
7:00 p.m. Keynote intro
7:05 p.m. Session 1: Keynote Address “What Did You Heal From?” by Monalisa, Practitioner In Residence, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and Co-Founder of Socio-Legal Impact Organization Kahee Institute
7:45 p.m. Q and A
8:00 p.m. Close

THURSDAY 2/6/2025

9:00-10:00 a.m. Breakfast
10:00-11:00 a.m. Session 2: Breakout

a. Understanding ACEs and Intergenerational Trauma as a Means of Prevention: Marianne Thomas, PhD
b. Moving Targets: Migration, Vulnerabilities, and Human Trafficking Prevention: Eileen McKenzie, FSPA
c. Working to Prevent Labor Trafficking: Trends in the US and How We Can Help: Marcia Eugenio

d. Cashing in on Shareholder Advocacy as a Tool for Human Trafficking Prevention: Ann Scholz, SSND, Panelists: Sally Duffy, SC, Laura Krausa, and Caroline Boden
11-11:30 a.m. Break
11:30-1:00 p.m. Session 3: Survivor Panel: Moderator: Cristian Eduardo
Panelists: Jenny Footle, Maria Tell, Kris Wade
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:00 p.m. Session 4: Breakout

a. College Campus Panel: Shea Rhodes, JD, Dr. Cathy Curley, Maria Elisa Escobar, Maria Tell

b. Youth Engagement in Recovery Planning: Brittany M. Butler

c. Human Trafficking Prevention with New Administration: Eilis McCulloh, HM

d. The Role of Men in Demand Reduction: Peter Qualliotine
3:00-3:30 p.m. Break
3:30-5:00 p.m. Session 5: Allies in Prevention Panel:

  • Moderator: Kristin Keen
  • Panelists: Heather Heiman, Louie Greek, Thomas Stack
5:00-6:00 p.m. Break
6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Global Spotlight: Child Soldiers

  • Moderator: Lieutenant Colonel Joe Evans (US Army)
  • Panelists: Dr. Chris Faulkner – US Navy War College, Serena Tiberia – United Nations Department of Peace Operations Child Protection, Colonel Phillimon Molate – Botswana Defense Attache, Brezhnev Paasewe (Liberia) and Dan Griffin – Catholic Relief Services
9:00-10:00 a.m. Breakfast
10:00-11:00 a.m. Session 7 Breakouts

a. Parenting and Prevention: Jan Edwards

b. Trafficking of Men and Boys: Maxwell Swartz

c. Human Trafficking and Race: Evelyn Chumbow

d. Awareness Events in Communities: Christine Commerce
11-11:45 am Break and check out
11:45-1:15 am Keynote and Close

Speaker: Rachel M. Poynter – Principal Deputy Director, Office To Monitor And Combat Trafficking In Persons
Closing Prayer