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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Human Trafficking in Montreal: Supply and Demand
Time: 12:000 P.M. EDT
EVENT TYPE: ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Join us for a panel discussion on Human Trafficking and the Formula One in Montreal. Our expert guests include Kelly Tallon Franklin from Courage for Freedom, award-winning speaker and expert on sexual exploitation, and Brian Rae from Buyer Resist, who is tackling sex trafficking through innovative technology and compassionate care, focusing on the demand side of this critical issue.
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About Our Speakers
Brian Rae, Executive Director at Buyer Resist
Our guest speaker, Brian Rae, grew up in North Africa where he developed a heart for justice at a young age, inspiring him to pursue a legal career. After passing the bar exams, Brian chose to set aside his legal career to focus on combating sex trafficking through technology and compassionate care. Now based in Victoria, BC, he leads Buyer Resist, a technology organization dedicated to eliminating the demand for sex trafficking. At the heart of Buyer’s Resist’s effort is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that intercepts men who are buying sex and guides them toward recovery from sexual addiction and brokenness.
Kelly Tallon Franklin, Chief Executive Director and Founder of Courage for Freedom
Kelly Tallon Franklin is an award-winning speaker and advocate on the issues of human rights, justice, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, gender-based violence and equine trauma therapies. As Chief Executive Director and visionary Founder of Courage for Freedom, she has a personal story of overcoming violence, drugs, and incarceration suffering coercion, exploitation stripped of dignity and hope. She fought resiliently out of childhood sexual abuse, gender-based violence, and survived sex and labor trafficking. Fierce and tireless Kelly found the strength to launch an incorporated registered charity in 2007 and developed coalitions and task force teams while remaining connected to front-line support needs to stay relevant and leading.
Focused on community work in all regions of the globe, she offers training, education, awareness, and care to women, girls, and their families utilizing her intel and procedural knowledge of how advancing the rule of law demanding governmental will requires intelligent focused actionable advocacy led by Survivors.
She has inspired teams and implemented national and global projects. With best-selling book(s), accolades, and high demand from global speaking invitations, she offers accurate information to focus concerns and solutions in interested communities, regions and member states, starting in prevention. She is a team leader and mentor developer.
Her current body of work prioritize the need for concrete national ethical movement development, policy and consultation that is survivor led and informed, and reformation of priorities in law, and of prevention measures. Kelly’s big picture thinking and understanding of systems analysis, entrenchment and work in United Nations Standing Committee on Human Rights, Women in Organized Crime, and intersections in current Global trends in poly-crises that intersect with human trafficking, gender based violence, femicide and non-state torture provide the backdrop for her and all allies to initiate change, mentor and legacy build for the future of women and girls in eradicating human trafficking.