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How did you start an organization?

I’ve talked a bit about having started an organization and directed it for years - Young Women’s Empowerment Project. When asked I’ve often explained that I returned to my hometown Chicago, after having lived in different cities and worked in different ways on the issue of prostitution, and finding no efforts in Chicago at that [...]

How did you get started doing this work?

I get this question a lot. And it’s a layered story. I don’t find it easy to describe it in a sentence or two; although I’ve certainly tried when pressed. I’ve been involved in organizations and efforts on women and youth in the sex trade for about 17 years now. I’ll be describing some of [...]