

Tue, Feb 13
|Online Workshop
Human Trafficking prevention in our Classroom: Promoting Student Agency
Let's foster advocacy and empower students as change agents to help and address anti-human trafficking and various models of social change.
Time & Location
Feb 13, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Online Workshop
About the Event
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…