Working with what we have. I was, like what do we have . Shes, like, your body. I didnt know about sex trafficking until i was in the middle of it. After a while, you get used to it, like everything goes around, just doesnt seem out of ordinary to you. We really believe that she was getting ready to be sold. Briana comes from a small town, an a student, did everything you hope your daughter would do. My dreams were to become a nurse, while i was in high school. I found a waitressing job. I love school. I love being around my friends and my science class is my big thing. These traffickers are pimps. They pretend to be an older boyfriend. The young girls fall in love with these guys and believe that this guy loves them back. He was, like, 24, he played football at the university. He bought me some designer jeans and things. Movies and malls, trips, stuff like that. He bought me a dress and some jewelry. I didnt have stuff like that. It is important for the pimp or the trafficker to separate these girls from their family and their friends. He really gave me the courage to kind of stand up to my mom. He was, like, you know, just kind of, you know, keep it on the down low. One day he asked for something. And even though she doesnt want to do it, she is so worried about losing him that she will and once hes had her do it once, he pretty much can control her from then on. He kept saying he needed money, i was, like, you know, ill help you or whatever. I made a choice that night, but i found out that they actually had chosen me. That was a video that frames the issue. It really tells you a story about what happens in our community. First of all, id like to thank the justice department, attorney general sessions, associate attorney general rachel brand for their amadzing leadership on this. Because this is what is going to take, it is going to take government, private sector, nonprofits, all working together to solve this problem. I really appreciate their efforts in doing this and also i would like to special thanks to Rachel Parker who kind of put this together so i really appreciate her efforts and my good friend tim head, out in the audience, he introduced me to rachel brand, i appreciate that. But what is interesting about this issue is were all basically volunteers. We work for companies. They have amazie ining corporat but they chose their personal time to dedicate their life to this issue. And to give you a quick story of how i got started, it ties into what the last panel with mary francis, in 2012, i volunteered at a passion conference in atlanta. The entire conference was on Human Trafficking. And i thought, what are they even talking about Human Trafficking, that doesnt happen in atlanta. Thats a third world problem, not my problem. I heard all these stories. I met this girl through the freedom project named melissa, first girl to go through the program. And had her come speak to our rotary club with well spring living and melissa, she told her story about being trafficked. Somebody knocked on her door, offered her a job, she was trafficked in downtown atlanta for several years. Finally got out of it and was rescued but after the meeting, one of our members gave melissa a big hug, how did you know mellas whiss melissa . She used to baby sit my kids when i was 12. Thats not somebody elses program. Being a member of rotary, i say use the spirit of influence you have. And being a member of rotary, 1. 2 million in 200 countries, over 35,000 clubs, just in georgia 204 rotary clubs, so i thought, what a great way to leverage an organization that is on the verge of eradicating polio, and we think the next issue should be Human Trafficking and modern day slavery. To put that influence behind because we got business leaders, Law Enforcement, legislators and all of our clubs. And what im so excited about today is we have got some of the most amazing ngos, not just in the lab, but all over the United States, all over the world, doing incredible work and many of them are here. But to be honest with you, they have bp fighting an uphill battle because Human Trafficking is 150 billion business annually, every year, and they have been doing it basically with sticks and other people have guns. And so what we are doing now is were leveling the playing field. These are the big dogs, these are the companies that are going to the companies that will take over and make a difference in this issue and we believe, i am so optimistic about what we can do with these companies coming onboard because they not only bring their influence and leverage and financial piece and their employees and networks and you will hear different aspects of how they can get involved because theyre Amazing Companies and i am just so proud to be on this journey with them, and these are only a few of the companies that are joined, but weve already had major discussions of how we can Work Together in the years to come, and i feel optimistic about what we can do. Ill introduce a panel that can give a short, kind of an overview of what the company does and then well start with some questions, but shelly its with the anthem of technology and amazing work and the chair of the freedom counsel and the coalition of amazing businesses and they Work Together and we have brent wilton, director of the workplace, cocacola who has done an amazing work, not just with coke, but on dealing with supply chain issues all over the world or Antigua Davis with facebook. Shes director of security for facebook globally and facebook has some amazing initiatives theyre doing that are proud of what facebooks doing. Nicole clifton, Vice President of ups Public Affairs is with us. As you can see, this an Amazing Group of companies. Andrea jenkins with ronstat north america. Thank you for being here. Rich jerry with delta air lines, director of line operations for delta and theyve gathered together and it will change the game regarding Human Trafficking, and im going to start with shelly if you would give a brief overview of how you got involved and what anthem is doing and thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to such an important issue and i am humbled to represent a Business Community and particularly the efforts with the freedom counsel. The freedom counsel is the coalition of businesses, Global Businesses that have come together to fight this issue. So i chair the counsel, but the Council Falls under the umbrella of Nonprofit Organization named jfrj and they fight the organization focuses on fighting Human Trafficking. So im a technologist by profession and i try to keep up whats happening around the world in the technology sector, and i read about Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning and the internet of things and how all these technology pieces have taken us to a whole new level of advanced ability to predict Human Behavior and we also live in a world at the same time where humans are being sold for sex and labor online and many times, much easier and faster than any other channels. We also live in a world where theres more than 40 million trafficked victims on this planet today and like you said, dave, contributing to this 150 billion, big number and these are daunting facts and to me as a human being, that made me think about wanting to do something about this issue. I do want to say businesses are uniquely positioned to make an impact in this space, and i say that because of many reasons. Number one, businesses have a large footprint and what i mean by that is they have hundreds, thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of employees and if you extend that to their broader ecosystem and now youre talking about billions of businesses connected to businesses and that is a massive outreach opportunity and all of us know that unfortunately, this issue is not isolated to a Community Local or national and its a global issue and many of the businesses have footprint beyond the boundaries of our country, so if you leverage that connection and network, now were able to go beyond the boundaries of nations to make an impact in this space. Maybe the third point i would like to bring up is that most companies do csr efforts especially at the International Level and companies are mandated in many countries to give back a portion of their revenue back into the community. What if we tap into that efforts and extend it. When a Company Fights this issue, that is incredible, thats powerful, but when Companies Come together to fight this issue, now youre talking about exponentially powerful. Maybe the last point ill make about why this issue matters to organizations or companies is that there is a part of branding involved in this, as well. Im a leader and am an executive and i hire individuals and more so than ever before, i see a trend in our potential employees where they not just look for an incredibly Successful Company to be a part of, but they also look for what the company does in the community and what are they doing to make an impact in this world and so again, one other reason why that i think that businesses are well positioned and uniquely positioned to fight this issue. So in a nutshell for all these reasons and many more, we have formed what is called the freedom counsel. Anthem is one of the first adopters as we joined the counsel and a couple of the Panel Members and rotary club and ron start is also the early adopters of this counsel and as of today its been over a year since we started this counsel and we have more than 15 and anywhere from fortune 20 to fortune 500 companies on this counsel actively involved in making a difference in this world. Thats great. Thank you so much. Brent, lets turn to you and talk a little bit about coke. I know that youve done amazing work regarding the supply chain. I would like to hear a little bit about that and your background with the supply chain and what amazing work youve done over the years with that. Thank you and thank you very much for the opportunity also to be here. I hope people can hear me. It doesnt sound like youre getting much volume out of this. Can you hear me . Okay. The cocacola company, as you know, is a very large, very old american company. We are present as a brand in over 207 countries in the world and primarily we operate in independent bottling marketers and we manage the brand and being such an old company and being present around the world for so long weve been very much involved with issues around human rights for many, many years and this comes in the fold of what is human rights for us. As a company we have a strong human rights policy which weve recently renewed and we released the firstever human rights report to address issues like forced labor, Human Trafficking throughout supply chains and through our business. As you can imagine, our supply chain is huge. 207 bottlers each with their own domestic supply chain and ourselveses with Global Supply chain with Agricultural Producers and we source from about 5 million farms around the world so people are talking about footprint, its huge. So what weve been trying to do in terms of the work that weve been leading is to engage in a pp relationship with our supplies throughout the program that looks to address the existence of particularly labor trafficking in our supply chain, and of course, in doing that you cant just come in with a stick. Youve also come in in an educated way. In many countries of the world people dont see this as a bad thing. In some parts of the world people believe you need to pay to get a job. If theres no payment the job isnt real. So you must pay and become indebted to get a job. So we do a lot of work trying to educate communities around the fact that we do not want to see people paying to get a job whereby they become debt bonded and they lose control of their personal identification documents and whereby they are misled as to the nature of their employment and they find themselves stuck in countries where they cant get out, and so for us, this journey has been a very long journey. There is, however, been a Tipping Point and this has been since the adoption by the u. N. Human rights counsel of the u. N. Guiding principles on human rights that calls on all businesses regardless of size or location to respect universal human rights. Since that time, we have seen more companies understanding the need to engage in the space. Since that time, we have seen more ngos being up front about the expectations they have about corporations around this issue and since that time, we have seen more and more efforts to disclose what companies are doing in this space. So there has also been a little bit of a stake with the carrot of trying to do the right thing within the supply chain. Are we there yet . No. Will we get there yet . No. This is an ongoing effort because you have to go back and repeat and repeat and repeat to engage and engage and engage, so the other learning weve had as a result of our efforts is no one company can do this alone. Youve got to work with others. So we are now involved in a number of initiatives through the likes of the Consumer Goods Forum with the sustainabilitys work on no employee fees for jobs through the leadership work of the institute of human rights and businesses on leading the call to deny people the charging for work and through the work that were doing with the Global Business coalition against Human Trafficking which is looking to support smes and their understanding of what the challenge is and also to work in the survivor space so that you actually square the circle, so to speak so people are arent being trafficked for exploitation. Thats great. Thank you very much. You see the importance of corporations getting together globally and addressing this in the way you did, and i appreciate that. Lets turn to the amazing work facebook is doing because what you have done is just astounding and what i love about it is the fact that youve partnered with many other organizations to help them combat the issue of trafficking and actually found the signs and represent it. First, can you hear me okay . Thank you. Thank you for having us and including us in the conversation. I just want to say you know, you talk about our work being outstanding, but its not necessarily our work thats outstanding and its the partnerships that we have that make what we do powerful, and the organizations are dedicating all of their time to this effort that really deserve the round of applause in this. In terms of how we approach this issue, ill talk about how we approach safety generally and how that plays out in the context of sex trafficking. So first and foremost, we have rules against trafficking on our platform, but as anybody who works in this space knows, rules are not enough. It really takes much, much more than that. So we also utilize the tools on the platform and the product itself to try to combat sex trafficking so its everything from the simple thing of giving people the ability to report on the platform to much more sophisticated things like using photo matching technologies so that when people are uploading photos that may be of an exploited individual we are able to catch that photo being uploaded on to our platform and report it to organizations like the National Center for missing and exploited children. It is also things that are in some ways smaller, but are trying to attack in different areas. When people go to search contents on the platform, if they put it in terms that theyre looking to connect to traffic or looking to connect with someone who traffics we will pop up not only an indication that thats not allowed on the platform, but provide links to resources so if someone who is a victim is in any way searching on the platform and gives an indication, they will be immediately connected to an opportunity to reach out for resources. That one is particularly important because anyone who works in this space knows is that the victims oftentimes dont come forward. It takes a lot for them to come forward so trying to find any way in which to give them an opportunity to make them feel safe to do that is person. The third way in which we work on these things is through programattic work. What we do is we have a child Safety Hackathon and it focuses specifically on the child victims of exploitation, and we bring together our Industry Partners so the other Major Players in the tech world to work, brings about 80 to 100 engineers to our headquarters in menlo park to take the technological challenges. So we know that Law Enforcement doesnt necessarily always have access to the technology that they need, that organizations like the National Center for missing and exploited children dont always have access to the technologies they need to keep up with the perpetrators of these crimes and so these engineers come together for what we call hack which is a 48hour, i dont know, what normal people like me would call a brainstorm, but actually building things and its even better than a brainstorm where they will build technological tools and advancement for these ngos that work on affording sex trafficking. Some really Interesting Technology has come out where utilizing, for instance, facial recognition to match people thats being exploited with images that are out to try to locate those victim, and i want to give one call out to an organization that i believe is here today, an Organization Called thorn that works very specifically on this type of technology for Law Enforcement, and they, in particular, have a unique tool called spotlight which hopefully well get a chance to talk about today which is extraordinarily promising and something that we should be getting into the hands of all Law Enforcement officials. The next thing is really working with partners. So i started with that, but i cant really under emphasize the importance of these partnerships. We are experts at building human kecks and were not necessarily experts on all of the things that happen on our platform. We wouldnt be able to do this without the expertise of these partners. So we need experts in Law Enforcement experts in working with victims. We recently did a sex trafficking xfn where we brought in these experts to talk about patterns that we can share with engineers so that we can build technologies to spot the stuff on the platform and the last thing is working with the people who are utilizing the platform to understand where these abuses are coming from and working with victims. Right. Thanks so much. The rotary National Convention was in atlanta and Ashton Kutcher was there with the cofounder of thorn and senator bob corker and gary hagan and rebecca, a survivor, but the impact that ashton had on the audience was 48,000 rot arians from 160 countries. The impact of him telling the story not just of catching the criminal, but also understanding why they do what they do and trying to help them with that, they do amazing work, as well. I appreciate their work and youre exactly right. Thank you for that. Nicole, lets turn to ups. Ups is an Amazing Organization doing the research and getting ready for this. In 2016, they delivered 4. 9 billion packages. Theyre everywhere in every home, and so the training that you do with your employees, but also like i say, theyre everywhere and weve had amazing discussions just like the super bowl in atlanta and other things that well do as we go through the panel. Thanks for your commitment, too. Thank you for having us, david. And thank you to the department of justice for hosting this panel and bringing together the folks from the Business Community. Its an honor to be here. Ups is everywhere and weve got 434,000 employees around the world. We deliver in 220 countries and territories and when the state attorneys General Office contacted us in atlanta they asked if they can fund a see something, Say Something campaign and my work with the Public Affairs office in ups is to work with all of the ags, and i had no idea that Human Trafficking was an issue. I certainly had no idea that atlanta had the distinction of being one of the number one cities for sex trafficking. Im from georgia. I live in d. C. Now, but it seemed unfathomable to me that atlanta could bear that statistic. And so we helped underwrite the see something, Say Something campaign and then we started thinking about what more we could do and for other businesses that are in the audience. Money and funding is hugely important, and sometimes if thats what you can lend then certainly lend that to the effort, but when you think about your most important resources, your human capital, oftentimes is even better than underwriting an initiative and so we started thinking about our drivers because we have 100,000 drivers that come into cities and all of the zip codes around the country and theyre naturally trained to be alert and theyre naturally trained to be safe and they feel a responsibility to the communities and the folks that theyre around and so we started thinking about how can we use drivers in an effective way thats not mandatory and something that doesnt make them late to deliver your package, but something that, you know, utilizes the human side of who they are every day and so using Community Development and using partnerships is extremely important and so we found an organization that had been doing amazing work called truckers against trafficking and theyre based in colorado and we started worki working with truckers against trafficking and we thought it was important to have a robust policy so that we had human tolerance for Human Trafficking or supporting it in any way through our Company Property and its extremely important to stand up a policy and be very clear about that so that theres not any questions and so they understand where to call in terms of publicizing a phone number if they have concerns. And then the third thing that we looked at was how to engage externally and thats using a number of relationships that we have through Nonprofit Organizations and some of whom are here today and looking at how we can really use our reach as a Large Company to do more than write a check and also empower our employees to really feel connected to this issue and make a difference and so far, it took about a year and a half to stand up the training through truckers against trafficking and weve now extended the training to 96,000 drivers throughout the u. S. And were looking at institutionalizing this training as part of a new driver orientation. We onboard approximately 9,000 new drivers every year and were making sure that every driver who walks through the door and puts on a brown uniform whether theyre the freight driver or the Brown Package drivers that we see every day that they have an opportunity to do something. I want to recognize my colleague angie brower in hr who is an extremely valuable partner when you look at how businesses are able to move these initiatives forward, youve got to have people who have heart and who care about it and folks like angie who understand and have understood for a very long time why this is important helps us to continue to move the programs forward to give them life and mack sure theyre institutionalized. Thanks for being here. I second that because angie was at our conference in 2015 and she didnt let go. She said we have to do something and she kept driving and driving and she wouldnt leave it alone and i appreciate your effort. Its amazing and audrey with ronstadt, the amazing work that you do, and not just obviously as a company, but the fact that you were able to empower these survivors and you see some amazing survivors and the thrivers now, and i appreciate your efforts and if you tell us about how that Program Works and how you would like to scale it in the future. Sure. First of all, thank you so much and its an honor to be here with these esteemed clients and we really do appreciate this opportunity to partner. Thank you again to the doj for hosting this summit. I hope this is the first of many summits to talk about this issue. At ronstat we have the program called hired hope its in partnership with well springs living and mary was just on the panel previous to this one talking about the program a little bit. There are three phases to the program. Its six months long. The first phase is the restore phase. That phase were dealing with the total health of the woman and this is really for young women that have been survivors of trafficking, exploitation and homelessness. The first phase, we partner with communitybased partners to partner with additional things that they need. They need counsel anding housing and things corporations cant provide and that helps the buildup of the necessities and tandem to that we provide the training for them for ten weeks in the first phase and at the end of the first phase, they graduate and then they have an opportunity if theyre still with the program which many of them do and about 90 stick with it and were excited about that track record and they graduate an opportunity for a pay to partner it, and were grateful to the ceo linda galupo who is a huge advocate of this as well as the ceo of the source write, Rebecca Henderson who provides the work for the apprenticeship. They get live on the job training and theyre working in our offices and theyre getting training every day and theyre doing actual real work supporting their clients like ups and delta and anthem and cocacola. They provide us with the supplemental part of the workforce and they are treated like any part of our family . At the end of the 12 weeks we move on to the thrive phase where they interview, they do a presentation of our executives and they talk about what theyve learned through their journey through the hired help program and they have an opportunity to interview with longer term positions with the partner as well as internal to ronstat. We are proud of the work we do for hired hope because at the end of the day and in the words of dr. Martin luther king, lifes most persistent, urging question is what will we do for others and if we in the Business Community, the ones that have the power, platform, advocacy and the voice to be there for the voiceless, for those who do not have anyone in their corner to support them, that, to me, is meaningful work. So im really proud about what were doing with ronstat. In addition to that we have the Global Supplier code which we make sure that anybody were doing business with adheres to which has a clause in that, that says you are going to adhere to all of the International Laws against child labor, all of the International Laws against trafficking and im proud of the work were doing there. Thanks so much. Just to follow up on that, it was probably two years ago i was at a luncheon that mary francis hosted at wellspring living and i was sitting across from this girl just having a conversation, just bubbly and happy and then she gets up and tells her story and i was blown away, but shed been through the Program Early on in the program and to see the impact of those people, and i tell the stories all of the time. To see the impact. Because if we save these girls, women and we dont do something for them after that we dont give them a sustainable life they go right back into it so the work that you all do is unbelievable, and rich, last, but not least because delta, ive worked with for many years and theyve done an amazing job on this and as a matter of fact, their ceo is hosting a breakfast at the end of march and in conjunction to the rotary club to challenge and take this issue on, but one thing about this issue with all these companies and i was at an event last night that polaris hosted in atlanta and deltda and the amazing work they were doing and one of your employees was there and came up front and raised his hand. I work for delta and let me tell you what else were doing. All of these companies that see the energy and excitement because i think the younger generations dont just want to go to work 9 00 to 5 00. They want to change the world and thats what these issues do, so your employees will be happier and the world will be better and now that all of these companies are coming along, more companies will come along. So if you want to get an overview of these things and you mention the flyer that youre putting in the seats of the planes. David, again, thank you for hosting this and the department of justice, thank you for being willing to bring this group together to talk about this such important issue. My personal journey began with mary francis bowly, and i know her name was mentioned a lot and about eight years ago she sat down with me and two hours later as i was in tears she had given me a great idea of the nature of the problem, the scope of the problem and more importantly, the proximity of the problem. I didnt realize that this was happening in my own backyard and so fast forward to about nine months ago and i was on the Steering Committee for antiHuman Trafficking at delta, and i gladly jumped on the opportunity to do that and it was refreshing right off the bat to realize that while this committee is being run by our senior Vice President for inflight services, allison osmond, the sponsor of it overall is our ceo ed bastion and his himself and his wife are heavily involved in this effort and they have a real passion for it, so it goes great, it help his us a lot to know that its a very top of the corporation that is on top of this issue that is pushing this issue and that is supporting this issue. That translates it into our employees and im not surprised that someone jumped up and said im involved in it, too, because weve tried over the last couple of years to educate all 80,000 of our employees about the issue. Every year we have a Kickoff Campaign, usually in january. This year the snowstorm prevented us from doing that, but in a couple of weeks well have our Kickoff Campaign and ashley judd is the keynote speaker of that event. We expect to have several hundred if not a thousand or so of our employees to highlight what we do. From the education piece, 80,000 of our employees are trained in this. Its the focus of the front line employees and our pilots, flight attendants and gate agents and every employee at delta needs to be aware of the issue and what we need to do to combat it and what signs we need to identify it and report it. So from a front line Employee Point of view and our gate agents and theyre receiving annual reduring training to make sure theyre aware of it, and they look for side, what are they seeing . Why are we doing it . Were doing it because this is going on in the places that all of us live and just as importantly its going on wherever delta flies and so we want very much to be the leader in this fight. We want very much to set the bar for other corporations and in the Transportation Industry to make sure that were fighting this each and every day. When we look at the programs to start to put in place, its the education of the employees and it extends to our communities. We look for opportunities to inform our communities. We look for opportunities for our employees to volunteer in their communities in this effort and we try to educate our customers and you will see throughout the country especially in atlanta, and i believe in a little while, charlotte. Youll see signs sponsored by delta other and agencies, to highlight to the traveling public that hey, theres an issue out here, and there are hotline numbers you can call and empeople you can report to to give your concerns about the things that you see. We have institute voluntary program is that our customers can volunteer their sky miles to the effort to allow for the free travel of people that need to get back and forth both victims and supporters of the victims and delta itself is donating up to 3 million miles to match that effort. So were doing everything we can from an employee perspective and a Community Perspective and a Partner Perspective and other airline partners, klm, air france, skyteam partners and aeromexico and were trying to educate them and bring them along and where we fly and where we live. Finally, we want our victims to know the victims of this horrific practice and i obviously am being very, very kind when i use those words because everyone who is aware of how bad this is, it just it just grabs you it grabs at your very humanity that people could be involved with these kinds of trades. When we went to victims to know that we see you, we are with you, fighting for you every day to try to end this absolutely horrific trafficking. Thank you. Thank so much, rich. Just to give another example how companies can engage in this issue and well have a convention in the summer in atlanta, we had a survivors exhibit that tells the story of hope. Thats what the panel offers is hope to survivors. We already had it down there and i call allison chair of the Steering Committee of delta, would you like to display it . She not only displayed it, she put it in the main rotunda and it was supposed to be there a week and she kept it a month. Hundreds of thousand of people saw the stories and i would go to the airport and just to see and watch people read the stories and the impact of what people have done and the willingness to do, and youll be glad to do it and i appreciate that. , a little bit about work for fin sighta and well talk more about atlanta and take care of business in atlanta, for sure. Absolutely. Maybe ill start with a couple of facts about the Freedom Council. I believe and i believe this is accurate that the Freedom Council is the Largest Alliance of companies coming together, fighting this issue and when i say that, its not just about checking off a box and not just being on paper and its about fighting this issue and im talking about these Council Members and these companies. We meet weekly, and we meet biweekly on focused efforts and then each company goes away with a deliverable, multiple deliverables and they spend an, normous amount of time, effort and bringing solutions to the table. In terms of the Freedom Council and we have two verticals within the umbrella of Freedom Council. One it is about the United States and our efforts in this country, and i think it came up in the past discussion that here we have several ngos and we dont have a shortage of ngos. We are Many Organizations fighting this cause, but maybe where there is an opportunity is to bring collaboration we are going to leave this discussion and go live now to the white house for todays briefing. Heres spokesman s