INCREASING ACCESS TO TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE IN EXPLOITATIVE STRUCTURES: A WEBINAR SERIES
Join us this summer for our 3-part webinar series, Increasing Access to Transformative Justice in Exploitative Structures.
Note: Attendees may register for individual sessions, or for the full series at a discounted rate.
Part 1: Anti-Blackness Across Diasporas; The Historical Context of Anti-Blackness and Human Trafficking
Date: July 16, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM EST
Cost: $50 per webinar or $125 for the series
During this webinar, attendees will learn:
Ways that anti-blackness is perpetrated through systems in the United States.
The historical context of racism and human trafficking in the United States.
Part 2: Pipeline Cycles and Its Modernization; A Framework Summary on the Criminalization of Black/African-American Girls.
Date: July 30, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM EST
Cost: $50 per webinar or $125 for the series
During this webinar, attendees will learn:
About the sexual abuse to prison pipeline, and how this ties directly into the issue of human trafficking.
Strategies for prevention and education that may helpful when doing anti-trafficking work.
Examples of how to disrupt cycles of abuse and exploitation.
Part 3: Suffering at the Margin; Respectability Politics and the Perfect Survivor Narrative
Date: August 27, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM EST
Cost: $50 per webinar or $125 for the series
During this webinar, attendees will learn:
About intersections of inaccessibility to trauma-informed services and human trafficking.
Examples of how the "perfect survivor" narrative can be harmful to survivors of trafficking.
* Participants may submit questions to presenters prior to the webinar through the registration form.
SPEAKERS
Jiamia McCoy
Anti-Trafficking Social Worker
Indiana Legal Services, Inc.
Jiamia McCoy, (she/her/ella), has her BSW and identifies as Black/African American. She is Indiana Legal Services' anti trafficking social worker, also recognized as a survivor’s advocate, and the first ever in her position based out of Indianapolis. She’s been working with Indiana Legal Services since August 2020 and in the non-profit sector serving survivors of crime for approximately 7 years while she acquired her education in human/social services. She collaboratively works with a team comprised of worker rights and survivor rights legal staff – supporting survivors of labor exploitation and human trafficking. Not only is she extremely passionate about anti-racism being prioritized in the anti-trafficking movement and non-profit sector as a whole, she has built curriculums along with conducted robust trainings surrounding the origins and domains of racism in the human trafficking movement. She’s an esteemed survivor educator and consultant on the topics of anti-blackness, decolonization, and anti-oppression. She’s made it a priority in her work to shift the language and perspective to prioritize racial justice and equity within every part of society. Additionally, she’s led as a chair member on multiple state coalitions surrounding anti-trafficking and anti-racism. Outside of ILS, she is a participant in the abolition movement and activist for human & civil rights. She’s also a yoga practitioner, lover of wellness and planting, a mother, and spends most of her time in a book or with family & friends in community.
Yeni Bencomo-Suarez
Violence Prevention Specialist and Community Organizer
Yeni Bencomo-Suarez (she/her/ella) is a neurodivergent Caribbean Latina, bilingual, mutual aid organizer, violence preventionist, sex educator, public health researcher, and a student of abolition. Yeni has fought for a variety of social causes including labor rights, reproductive, climate, and racial justice. Yeni has been community organizing, sustaining mutual aid networks, and doing movement work for over six years. Refusing to placate to eurocentric civility and preservation of the status quo; Yeni’s strongest strengths are disrupting white supremacy, speaking truth to power, and remaining grounded in universal values. Yeni strives for liberation and justice through an intersectional and internationalist framework, and is committed to collectively building multiracial, working class social movements as her theory of change. As the shapeshifter she is, Yeni previously worked as a labor organizer for SEIU while obtaining her BA in Latin American/Latino studies and Middle Eastern/Islamic studies from the University of Louisville. During the 2020 dual pandemics of COVID-19 and police brutality, Yeni fundraised over $20,000 for housing, food, and bail funds. Afterwards, Yeni moved to Indiana and worked as the outreach coordinator of a violence prevention program at Purdue University and later worked at a statewide sex education non-profit. Yeni served on the Leadership team at Indiana Disability Justice from 2022 to 2024. Yeni now currently works as a peer support professional and clinical research technician at Indiana University. In her free time, Yeni loves to tend to her plants, read, travel, and spend time with her community.