March is Women’s History Month and I’m thrilled to take part on Friday, March 19th in a virtual panel at this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum.
The event is being organized by the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, a public-private partnership established more than a decade ago by the National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking in collaboration with the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office.
I’ll be joining the SFCAHT’s executive director, Antonia Lavine, and its co-founder, Nancy Goldberg, as well as California Superior Court Judge Susan Breall, Emily Murase, the former director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, and Cheryl Hayles, the President of the International Alliance of Women.
I’ll be discussing the late 19th and early 20th century efforts to combat human trafficking detailed in my book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Specifically, I’ll be exploring how anti-trafficking pioneers collaborated with others to achieve their goals.
The event, which will take place on Friday, March 19th, from 12:30-2 p.m., is titled “ABC’s of Global Collaboration To Fight Human Trafficking” and it is part of the San Francisco delegation’s series of events. To participate, you must first register (free!) as an advocate here. (Update: this event is now sold out and registration is no longer possible.)
