Monica Naranjo is a third-year law student at Boston University School of Law. Throughout her time in law school, she has interned at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Unit, the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit, and in the Chelsea District Court as a Certified Student Prosecutor. As a second-year law student, she was a member of the International Law Journal, where her Note on Labor Trafficking in the Private Military Industry will be published later this year. Prior to law school, Monica worked with Lutheran Services of Florida supporting victims of labor trafficking, and at Wellesley Centers for Women, where she participated in two NIJ-funded research projects on Sexual Violence. She also worked with Freedom for Immigrants and with DOVE, Inc. as a hotline advocate, and was awarded the Practitioner/Activist of the Year Award by the Division of Victimology at ASCDOV for her work with survivors of torture at Immigrant Justice Corps/CARECEN. In her spare time, Monica enjoys mentoring younger students and exercising.

Alyssa is a third-year law student at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. She has spent her time in law school externing with the Virginia Beach Public Defender’s Office, the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, and the Virginia Office of the Attorney General. As a second-year law student, Alyssa served as a staff member on the Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, where she now serves as the Executive Editor. Her Student Note, Checking Out Indefinitely: Supporting Survivors of Sex Trafficking Alongside Training and Education for Lodging Employees, will be published in the first issue of RGSJ’s Volume 29. She is also the president of the law school’s First-GenerationStudent Alliance. In her free time, Alyssa enjoys running half-marathons and talking about ocean conservation.

Bekah Carey is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School. Before law school, she interned at the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and worked as a data analyst at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia in their forfeiture section. As a law student, she worked on a project on the potential expansion of the ICC’s jurisdiction to cover human trafficking with Advocates for Human Rights, assisted in defending juveniles with the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Youth Advocacy Division, externed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, interned with the National Security Division’s Office of Law & Policy, and now works as student prosecutor at a local Commonwealth Attorney’s Office. Bekah has worked as a Supreme Court Chair for Volume 135 of the Harvard Law Reviewand serves on leadership of the Women’s Law Association and National Security Law Association. She worked as a legal fellow for the Human Trafficking Legal Center (HTLC) focusing on the role of civil litigation, forfeiture, and restitution in anti-trafficking efforts and ran HTLC’s criminal and civil trafficking databases.