Seminar series to explore human sex trafficking

Shireen Rajaram, Ph.D.

Shireen Rajaram, Ph.D., associate professor of health promotion, social and behavioral health in the UNMC College of Public Health, and Anna Brewer, a former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will speak at EMPOWER’s first session in a spring seminar series on human sex trafficking from noon to 12:50 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, in the Sorrell Center, Room 2018.

The session topic will be “Sex Trafficking in Nebraska.” The other sessions in the series will be:

  • “Screening and Identifying Sex Trafficking” in February;
  • “Supporting Sex Trafficking Survivors” in March; and
  • “Combating Sex Trafficking in Nebraska” in April.

Participants completing all four sessions will receive a certificate.

Lunch will be provided for the first 30 attendees.

Interested parties unable to attend can email EMPOWER for access to a video archive of the series’ sessions.

EMPOWER is a partnership between the Women’s Center for Advancement and the Service Learning Academy (SLA) hosted by the UNMC College of Public Health. The SLA offers unique interdisciplinary and interprofessional service-learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate level students enrolled on the UNMC campuses.

1 comment

  1. Carol Russell says:

    Shireen,
    I would love to be there, but have 4-year-old Isaac that day. Don't think he would appreciate the topic. Keep up the community discourse on the topic.

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