Human Trafficking prevention in our Classroom: Promoting Student Agency

As educators, it's our duty to foster advocacy and empower students as change agents. This session focuses on how schools can address anti-human trafficking and various models of social change. Notably, human trafficking is a $150 billion industry, with victims as young as 12-14 years old, and approximately 50 million people globally are trafficked at any given moment.

Speaker Bio:  

Veronica McDaniel has worked in education for two decades. Born in France and half-Colombian, and with an International Baccalaureate bilingual diploma, she is trilingual in French, Spanish and English. In 2011 at Atlanta International School, she started facilitating a student-led anti-human trafficking group. She is the teacher liaison for CNN Freedom Project’s #MyFreedomDay where she coordinates schools annually for a global day of action. Last year #MyFreedomDay resulted in nearly 2 billion social media impressions, with students from over 140 countries. She recently created the nonprofit FREEST, whose mission is to confront human trafficking by activating students and educators worldwide. Contact FREEST for collaboration at  veronica@freestinternational.org, visit our website and follow up on Instagram @freest.international