| What: | “Global Is Local: Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard”; |
| When: | 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| Where: | Baker Trial Courtroom, Rutgers School of Law–Newark |
| 8:30 – 9 am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9 – 9:15 am | Welcome Remarks: Dean John J. Farmer, Jr., Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli and Jessica Kitson, Director, Eric Neisser Public Interest Program |
| 9:15 – 10 am | Keynote: Kevin Ryan, President and CEO, Covenant House |
| 10:15 – 11:45 am | PANEL 1: RESPONSES TO COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION • Bridgette Carr, Clinical Professor, University of Michigan Law School • Marina Colby, End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT–USA) • Gigi Scoles, Prosecutor, Essex County Prosecutor Special Victims Unit • Ivy Suriyopas, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense Fund Anti-Trafficking Initiative • Professor Vera Bergelson, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator |
| 11:45 am – 1 pm | LUNCH Featured Speaker: Wendi Adelson, Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University and author of This Is Our Story |
| 1 – 2:30 pm | PANEL 2: CHEAP GOODS: CONSUMERISM AND COMPULSORY LABOR • Shana Chen, NJ Assistant U.S. Attorney, Organized Crime/Gang Unit • Margaret Martin, Seton Hall Law School Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic • Daniel Werner, Southern Poverty Law Center, Immigrant Justice Initiative • Professor James Pope, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator |
| 2:45 – 4:15 pm | PANEL 3: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY • Raymond Brown, Partner, Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, and Host of Due Process • Michelle Guelbart (ECPAT–USA) • Bill Livermore, Somaly Mam Foundation • Hon. Laura Safer Espinoza, Fair Food Standards Council • Professor Penny Venetis, Rutgers School of Law–Newark, Moderator |
The Human Trafficking Prevention and Prosecution Project, which is a joint project with Seton Hall School of Law, is supported by funding from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.
Media Contact: Janet Donohue
973-353-5553
E-mail: jdonohue@andromeda.rutgers.edu