Alliance to End Human Trafficking (AEHT) is a collaborative, faith-based national network that offers education, supports access to survivor services, and engages in advocacy to eradicate human trafficking. We work to inform the public, prevent this assault on human dignity, and assist survivors to live fulfilling lives.
Our members include 200+ congregations of Catholic Sisters, coalitions working against human trafficking and individuals who share our mission. Ending human trafficking is everyone’s work!
Alliance To End Human Trafficking envisions a world without human trafficking with a network of services and resources to inform the public, prevent the crime, and assist survivors to achieve a fulfilling life.
Our anti-trafficking efforts reflect the core values of our faith:
We challenge our Church, government officials and ourselves to consider these values in all that we do and we invite all people who share these values to join us in our work.
In April 2013, 15 sisters who were engaged in anti-trafficking work throughout the U.S. were invited to gather in Washington D.C. Sister Margaret Nacke, CSJ, from Concordia, KS, and Sister Ann Scholz, SSND, Associate Director for Social Mission, LCWR, were instrumental in convening this group. This initial three-day gathering was made possible with the leadership and partnership of Alexia Kelley, President, and CEO of FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities) and the financial support of several FADICA members.
While in Washington, these sisters met with representatives from the Polaris Project and several government officials who were engaged in anti-trafficking work. They also spent time sharing and reflecting with one another about their own work in the anti-trafficking arena. They realized the benefits of joining their efforts together and becoming a national network and the public, corporate voice for U.S. sisters on the issue of human trafficking.
Led by a Steering Committee of three sisters (Anne Victory HM, Kathleen Coll SSJ, and Ann Oestreich, IHM) for three years, the network grew, and joined Talitha Kum in 2014.
Sisters in Washington, D.C.
USCSAHT Joins Talitha Kum
In 2016, U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking became a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization governed by a Board of Directors. Our membership has grown to include 100+ congregations of women religious, Catholic coalitions working to end human trafficking and several individual partners.
USCSAHT hosts “Borders Are Not Barriers”
First Executive Director, Jennifer Reyes Lay, hired
First Members’ Conference
Katie Boller Gosewisch became our second executive director. The national office also moved to Brighton, Michigan.
In 2023, the organization underwent a change from U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking to Alliance to End Human Trafficking.
