Webinar: How Pimps Select Their Victims
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 @ 12:30PM Mountain
(2:30PM Eastern, 1:30PM Central, 11:30AM Pacific, 10:30AM Alaska)

This webinar will address intimate partner sex trafficking, particularly how pimps select their victims.  The focus will be on predator behavior, not victim risk factors.

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Christine Stark (Cherokee/Anishinaabe) is an award winning author, speaker, organizer, and visual artist. Her articles have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress and others. Currently, she is writing a report titled “Gathering Our Stories: the Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women on the Duluth Ships” based upon interviews she conducted with Native women and men.

Dr. Alexandra (Sandi) Pierce is an applied sociologist of Seneca and European descent. A long-time survivor of sex trafficking, she is the principal investigator and author of Shattered Hearts, the first research report on the commercial sexual exploitation of American Indian girls and women ever published in the United States. Dr. Pierce recently partnered with the Lauren Martin Center at the University of Minnesota’s University Outreach-Engagement Center to produce a report on the overall market structure of juvenile sex trafficking in Minneapolis, titled Mapping the Market. She is also an active member of a national coalition of sex trafficking survivors.

Other webinars in this series: Survivor Centered Webinar Series on Sex Trafficking of Native Women

1st of Series: Download Slides | View Recording

Trauma-Informed Approaches for Supporting Domestic Trafficking Survivors
This webinar lays the foundation for understanding sex trafficking of Native women and survivor centered responses developed by three experts in the field.

2nd of Series:  Registration
How Pimps Select Their Victims
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 @ 12:30PM Mountain (2:30PM Eastern, 1:30PM Central, 11:30AM Pacific, 10:30AM Alaska)
This webinar will address intimate partner sex trafficking, particularly how pimps select their victims.  The focus will be on predator behavior, not victim risk factors.

3rd of Series:  Registration
Breaking Process and Trauma Bond
Monday, August 24, @ 12:30PM Mountain (2:30PM Eastern, 1:30PM Central, 11:30AM Pacific, 10:30AM Alaska)
Violence, the trauma bond, and trauma-centered responses.

4th of Series:  Registration
Normalizations of DV to Turning Your Wife/Girlfriend Into A Prostitute
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 @ 12:30PM Mountain (2:30PM Eastern, 1:30PM Central, 11:30AM Pacific, 10:30AM Alaska)

Pornography and intimate partner violence; survivor descriptions of long-term harms; public refusal/inability to recognize the severity of trauma (Pornography telling men their wives and girlfriends can be used as prostitutes).