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Boutros Featured on ChangeMakers Podcast
Institute CEO and Founding Director Victor Boutros was featured on City Current’s ChangeMakers podcast on March 5, 2019. ChangeMakers podcast shares...
#InContext: Abigail Adams
Hailed for her now-famous admonition that the Founding Fathers “remember the ladies” in their new laws, Abigail Adams was not only an early advocate...
Institute Report featured in The Dallas Morning News
The Human Trafficking Institute’s 2017 Federal Human Trafficking Report was cited as a source of data in a column published by the Dallas Morning...
#InContext: Nelson Mandela
By: CHERISSE FRANCIS Nelson Mandela, now regarded as one of the most influential civil rights activists of all time, was born Rolihlahla Mandela on...
Now Accepting Applications for the 2019-20 Douglass Fellowship Cohort
Applications for the 2019-20 Douglass Fellowship cohort will be accepted until 5 PM EST on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Inspired by Fredrick Douglass’s...
Institute Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Favor of Lower Court’s Restitution Award
The Human Trafficking Institute recently filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in a case against an...
Institute Director Speaks on Mechanisms to Navigate Criminal Justice Systems at Human Trafficking Conference
The Human Trafficking Institute’s Director of Law Enforcement Operations, Dave Rogers, recently spoke on a panel entitled “Maximizing Global...
Douglass Fellow Hosts Advocacy Event with Annick Febrey
On January 28th, Pepperdine University’s Sudreau Global Justice Program and the Palmer Center, in partnership with The Human Trafficking Institute,...
#InContext: Coretta Scott King
Although best known for being the wife of famed civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King created her own legacy in the...
#InContext: Grace Hopper
The daughter of Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Van Horne, Grace Brewster Murray was born in 1906 in New York City, where her father owned...
#InContext: Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall’s unprecedented journey with the constitution began outside the classroom—a few feet outside the classroom, to be exact, where a...