Rethink Resources offers a deeper understanding of the issues facing youth in the sex trade through workshops, speaking engagements and consulting services. With this crucial information it’s more possible for communities to really support youth who’ve been involved in trading sex for money or survival needs with practical, experience-based options for anyone who wants to make a difference. Find out more here about what I can do for you.
I started as a youth/student organizer in high school and organized with anti-war, anti-racist, and women’s liberation movements through a national student activist network in college. I’ve participated in and started activist and outreach groups to confront the harms of sexual violence in Chicago, Minneapolis and other communities starting in 1990. I also volunteered as a rape crisis counselor and in a library for women detained at the Cook County Jail before starting an activist organization in 1999 that would later become the Young Women’s Empowerment Project.
I led the Young Women’s Empowerment Project, a social justice, harm reduction organization for girls and young women in the sex trade and street economies, (www.youarepriceless.org) in Chicago, Illinois as Executive Director for over 7 years, creating programs and workshops together with youth. Through supporting youth to take leadership in every possible capacity, YWEP is a youth led organization.
My BA is in Critical Pedagogy from Northeastern Illinois University.
I hope to inspire a shift in community efforts towards working together with youth who have life experience in the sex trade as partners resulting in active youth leadership on a local and national level, recognition of youth expertise and changes in policy and programmatic efforts to address teen prostitution, trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation and the sex trade as a whole.
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