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Lou Douglas Lecture scheduled for Fall, 2011.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 7:00 p.m. Forum Hall, Kansas State University
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery
Karen Countryman-Roswurm
Downloads from the Presentation:
Notes from the Lecture. 15 Ways You Can Work to End the Sexual Exploitation of Youth
About Karen Countryman-Roswurm:
Karen Countryman-Roswurm is a licensed master social worker with more than 14 years experience serving young people. Beginning her career at the Wichita Children’s Home as a Street Outreach Worker, Karen has since worked locally, regionally, and nationally as an individual, family, and group therapist; a founder and coordinator of youth programs; a researcher; a community organizer; and a human rights advocate. With a passion to better serve high-risk marginalized populations, Karen works to bridge the gap between direct practice, academia, research, and policy. Karen has been nationally recognized, and has received many awards for doing just that, particularly, for her specialization in working with homeless, runaway, and throwaway youth (HRTY) and young people who are at-risk of and/or subjugated to domestic minor sex trafficking or other forms of exploitation.
Currently, much of Karen’s time is spent in her role as the Founder/Coordinator for The Anti-Sexual Exploitation Roundtable for Community Action (ASERCA) where she coordinates multi-disciplinary collaborative efforts to prevent, intervene in, and reduce domestic minor sex trafficking. With this, Karen still works in direct practice providing mental/emotional health therapy and legal advocacy to survivors of domestic minor sex trafficking. Since 2006, Karen has traveled the country facilitating hundreds of trainings to assist providers in identifying and serving domestic minor sex trafficking survivors. This past year, Karen was recognized and filmed by Little Wolfe Productions in their Human Trafficking Documentary Hope Road, as one of four Women Warriors Fighting to End Domestic Sexual Exploitation. She was also filmed by End Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) USA under a Federal Grant to document best practices in working with domestic minor sex trafficking survivors. In addition, Karen is a Community Psychology Doctoral Candidate and an Instructor in the School of Social Work at Wichita State University.
PAST LECTURE: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 7:00 pm, Forum Hall, Kansas State University
"Defining a New Consensus on Immigrants and America "
Ali Noorani
About Ali Noorani:
Born in California, Noorani is the son of Pakistani immigrants and one of the few immigration leaders of
Muslim heritage. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and received his Master’s in
Public Health from Boston University. Recently, he received the Alfred L. Frechette Award from the
Massachusetts Public Health Association for exceptional leadership in promoting social justice and he
received the 2007 Boston University Young Alumni Award.
Mr. Noorani serves on the boards of the Campaign for Community Change, Families USA, and
Foundation for an Open America.
Established in 1982, the Forum is the nation’s premier pro-immigrant advocacy and policy organization
and has been at the center of every major immigration debate over the past 25 years. The Forum’s
mission is to advocate for the value of immigrants and immigration to America. The Forum uses its
communications, advocacy and policy expertise to create a better, more welcoming America that treats
all newcomers fairly and respects the rights of all.
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