An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Theory and Practice
Registration is now open for An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Theory and Practice webinar presented by Freedom Network Training Institute. During this 2.5 hour webinar, attendees will learn the following:
The who, what, where, why, and how of human trafficking
Information about types of legal and social services that may be available to survivors of human trafficking
Case examples with practical tips for service provision
Best practices when engaging with survivors of trafficking
Date: November 16, 2023 Time: 2:00 - 4:30 PM ET
Registration Price: $100
* Participants may submit questions to presenters prior to the webinar through the registration form.
Speakers
Jatnna Gomez, LBSW
Director of Partnerships, University of Maryland SAFE Center
Jatnna Gomez, LBSW is the Director of Equity and Community Engagement at the University of Maryland SAFE Center for Survivors of Human Trafficking. Ms. Gomez brings more than a decade of experience working with vulnerable communities in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She has worked with vulnerable youth, victims of gender-based violence, immigrant population, BIPOC-led community organizations and other groups. Ms. Gomez has worked with various victim services, public health, healthcare, and youth enrichment organizations to provide programming, advocacy, education, crisis intervention and leadership programming. In her current role, Ms. Gomez advises senior SAFE Center leadership, coordinates diversity and inclusion trainings for SAFE Center staff, and works with the different teams to use an equity and inclusion lens to evaluate SAFE Center policies related to personnel, programs, and clients, as well as SAFE Center partnerships and external advocacy work. Ms. Gomez currently chairs the Prince George’s County Human Trafficking Task Force Victim Services Committee and is a member of the Freedom Network USA Steering Committee.
Caroline Sennett
Director of Immigration Legal Services, CIRI
Caroline Sennett is the Director of the Immigration Legal Services program at the Connecticut Institute of Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI). She is a graduate of Tulane University and Tulane Law School. After working in private immigration practice, Caroline joined CIRI’s legal team to provide immigration legal services to survivors of violence. Over the last decade, Caroline has provided direct services to clients of CIRI’s Immigration Legal Services program and as an Attorney for Project Rescue, CIRI’s anti-human-trafficking program. Caroline has worked with and advocated for survivors, particularly around immigration relief. She has provided representation before the immigration court in removal proceedings, helping clients to navigate law enforcement investigations, and assisted clients with family reunification.
Dan Werner
Partner at Radford Scott, LLP
Dan is a bilingual (Spanish/English) lawyer with 25 years’ experience advocating for workers and victims of egregious civil rights abuses.
Dan began his career as an attorney representing farmworkers who toiled in orange groves, onion fields and apple orchards. He filed litigation, including several large class actions, against the agricultural employers who routinely underpaid and exploited his clients. Dan developed his cases through community legal education, outreach visits to rural labor camps, in-depth research, and considering all potential legal claims, including novel legal theories. His cases resulted in dozens of damages awards and settlements benefitting thousands of migrant workers in Florida and New York. He also represented immigrant clients in civil rights litigation, including a case the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals called “a paradigmatic case of racial profiling.”
Dan went on to receive an Echoing Green Fellowship and co-founded the non-profit Workers’ Rights Law Center of New York. There, he continued to defend the labor and civil rights of exploited immigrant workers and day-laborers. Among his many ground-breaking cases, he successfully led the first-ever lawsuit for labor trafficking survivors under newly-enacted federal anti-trafficking protections. Through that case and others that followed, Dan developed important legal precedent and became a sought-after expert on civil litigation for trafficking survivors, publishing on the subject and lecturing in the United States and internationally. He also was a Board member of the non-profit Freedom Network USA, the preeminent human trafficking survivor advocacy organization.
Dan received his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1996. He graduated from Grinnell College with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Spanish in 1991 and was conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2017. Dan is currently licensed to practice law in Georgia and New York. In his free time, Dan enjoys photography, caving, running, and cycling. Dan lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, three children, and a cat.