It was the year 2001, we had been married less than a year and we were at the Door of Faith Orphanage in Mexico talking to DJ and Lynette, the couple who run the whole place. A month earlier we made the choice together that someday, somehow, we wanted to take care [...]

Much of the time, policy makers and activists put a lot of focus on getting people out of slavery. Considering the number of people who are in slavery, which again is conservatively put at 27 million and is likely quite higher, this is absolutely critical. However, surprisingly little consideration and focus is [...]

When facing complex problems like human trafficking, we must keep in mind the fact that the solutions to these problems can be equally complex. We must take into account the fact that these problems tend to contain several elements, which we must come to understand. In the case of human trafficking, when we look [...]

Dark:30 in the morning. Guitar, children singing in Hmong. I have come across 15 time zones; have been traveling on planes, trains, buses, trucks and motorcycles for 40 hours. It has been worth it.
Yesterday afternoon I bumped my way through the gate on the back of Chala’s motorcycle. For the first time [...]