As someone who covers the Justice Department it is great to hear so many positive, kind words about the fbi and the Justice Department. They need it right now. Thank you so much for sharing all of your experiences and ways to empower survivors. [ applause ] were working with what we have and i was, like, what do we have . She said, your body. I didnt know about sex trafficking until i was in the middle of it. After a while you have to get used to it. Everything doesnt seem out of ordinary to you. We really believe that she was getting ready to be sold. Brianna comes from a small town, was an a student and did everything you hoped your daughter would do. My dreams were to become a nurse while i was in high school i had found a waitressing job. I loved school. I loved being around my friends and my science class was, like, my big thing. These traffickers or pimps, they pretend to be an older boyfriend and these young girls actually fall in love with these guys and believe that this guy loves them back. He was, like, 24. He played football at a university. He had bought me some designer jeans and things. Go to, like, movies and malls and stuff like that. He bought me a dress and some jewelry because i didnt really have stuff like that. Its 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 keep it on the down low. One day he asks for something and even though she doesnt want to do it shes 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 that he needed money and i was, like, 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. It really tells you the story about how it happens in our community. First of all, i would like to thank the Justice Department, and attorney general sessions, and rachel brand for their amazing leadership on this because this is what it will take, it will take government, private sector and nonprofits all working together to solve this problem and i appreciate their efforts in doing this and i would also like the special thanks to Rachel Parker who put this together so i really appreciate her efforts and my good friend tim head and hes out in the audience that introduced me to rachel brant and i appreciate that. But whats interesting about this issue is were all basically volunteers and i own my company and they chose their personal time to dedicate their life to this issue, and to give you a quick story of how i got started and it kind of ties into what the last panel of mary francis, in 2012 i volunteereded a passion conference in atlanta, the entire conference was on Human Trafficking and i thought what are they talking about Human Trafficking . That does not happen in atlanta. Thats a thirdworld problem. Not my problem. I heard the stories. I met a girl through the cnn freedom project named melissa who was actually the first girl to go through the wellspring Living Program and she came to the speak to the rotary club with the panel of wellspring living and melissa told her story about of course trafficked. Someone knocked on her door and offered her a job and she was trafficked in downtown atlanta for several years. Finally she got out and was rescued, but after the meeting one of our members gave melissa a big hug. I said how did you know melissa . She used to baby sit my kids when she was 12. I thought thats not someone elses problem. So being a member of rotary, i always say use a spirit influence that you have and being a member, we had 1. 2 million rotarians and over 35,000 clubs just in georgia, we have 204 rotary clubs and so i thought, what a great way to leverage an organization thats on the verge of eradicating polio, and we think the next issue should be Human Trafficking and modernday slavery and to put that influence behind because we have Business Leaders and Law Enforcement, legislators and all of our clubs and while i am so excited about today is we have some of the most amazing ngos, not just in atlanta and all over the United States and theyre doing incredible work and all of them are here and to be honest with you, theyve been fighting an uphill battle because Human Trafficking is a 150 billion business annually every year and theyve been doing it with sticks and the other people have guns and so what were doing now is were leveling the playing field. These are the big dogs and these are 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 financial peace, but it employs their networks and youll hear 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 a of the companies that are joined and weve had major discussions and how we can Work Together in the years to come. So i feel optimist bic about wh we can do. Ill introduce the panel about the overview of what the company does and well start with questions. Shelly, pencoat, sorry, is with anthem Vice President of technology and has been an amazing work and shes also chair of the Freedom Council which is a coalition of amazing businesses that Work Together. We have brent welton, director of workplace cocacola who has done amazing work not just with coke, but on dealing with supply chain issues all over the world. We have Antigua Davis with facebook. Shes director of security for facebook and globally and facebook has some amazing initiatives theyre doing and were really proud of what facebook is doing. Nicole clifton, Vice President of ups Public Affairs is with us. As you can see, this is an Amazing Group of companies. And Andrea Jenkins with ronstadt, north america, thank you for being here. Rich terry with delta air lines, director of line operations with delta. These companies you will hear what amazing work they do and now that were collaborating together it will really change the game regarding Human Trafficking. Im going to start with shelly and if you can get a brief overview of how you got involved and what anthem is doing. First, thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to such an important issue. I am honored and humbled to be here representing the Business Community, particularly the efforts of anthem as well as the Freedom Council. Coalition of businesses, Global Businesses to come together to fight this issue. So i chair the council, but the Council Falls under the umbrella of Nonprofit Organization named afrj. And they fight the organization focuses on fighting Human Trafficking. Im a technologist by profession, and i try to keep up with whats happening around the world in the Technology Sector and i read about Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning and the internet of things and how all of this technology pieces have sort of taken us to a whole new level of advanced ability to predict human behavior. And at the same time when humans are being sold for sex and labor online and a lot of 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 now youre talking about millions of individuals that are 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. 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 we are able to go beyond the boundaries of nations to really make an impact in this space. Maybe the third point i would like to bring up is that most companies do see our efforts especially at the international level. Companies are mandated in many countries to give back a portion of their revenue back into the community. Now what if we tap into that, we tap into their 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. I am a leader and im 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 at what the company does in the community. What are they doing to make an impact in this world . And so again, one other reason why i think that businesses are well positioned and uniquely positioned to fight this issue. So in a nutshell for all these reasons we have formed what is called the Freedom Council. Anthem is one of the first adopters that we join the council and a couple of the Panel Members and rotary club and ron start are also the early adopters of this council and as of today its been over a year since we started this council and we have more than 15, anywhere from fortune 20 to fortune 500 companies on this council and 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 youve done amazing work regarding the supply chain and your background with supply chain and what amazing work weve done over the years with that. Thank you. Thank you very much for the opportunity also to be here. I hope people hear me. It doesnt sound like im 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 although primarily we operate through independent bottling patterns and we dont do a lot of the work directly ourselves and we control the marketing and we manage the brand, but being present and around the world for so long weve been involved around issues of human rights for many, many years and this comes within the fold of what is human rights for us. As a company, we have a very strong human rights policy which we recently renewed and weve also recently released our firstever human rights report which reflects upon the journey that weve been on to address issues like forced labor, Human Trafficking through our 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 ourselves with Global Supply chains and sourcing largely from Agricultural Producers and we think we source from about 5 million farms around the world. So people are talking about the footprint, its huge. So what weve been trying to do in terms of the work that weve been leading is to engage in a positive relationship with our suppliers through our Auditing 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 got to in 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, you must 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, whereby they lose control of the personal identification documents and whereby theyre 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, i believe, been a Tipping Point and this has been since the adoption by the u. N. Human Rights Council of the u. N. Guiding principles on business and 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 of 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 stick with the carrot of trying to do the right thing within the supply chain. Are we there yet . No. Will we get there this year . No. This is an ongoing, ongoing effort because you have to go back and repeat and repeat and repeat to engage and engage and engage. So the other learns wed have as a result of our efforts is no one company can do this alone. Weve got to work with others and were involved with a number of initiatives through the like of the Consumer Goods Forum with the sustainable committees work on no employee fees for jobs through the leadership work of the institute of human rights in business on leading that call to deny people the charging for work and through some work that were doing with the Global Business coalition against Human Trafficking which is again looking to support smes and their understanding of what this challenge is and to start to work in the survivors space so that you actually square the circle, so to speak, so people arent being retrafficked for labor or sexual exploitation. You see the corporations getting together globally so i really appreciate that. Lets turn to the amazing work facebook is doing because what you have done is astounding and youve partnered with other organizations to help combat the issue of trafficking and actually found the signs and will prevent it. First can you hear me okay . Thank you for having us and including us in the conversation. I just want to sort of say, un, you talk about our work being outstanding and its the partnerships that we have that make what we do powerful, and the organizations that are dedicating all of their time to this effort that really deserve the round of applause in this. And in terms of how we approach this issue and i want to talk about how we approach safety generally and how that plays out in the context of sex trafficking. First and foremost, we have rules against trafficking on our platform. 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 our 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 this content when they see it on our platform to much more sophisticated things when using photo matching technologies so many people are uploading photos of an exploited individual we catch that photo being loaded on to the platform and report to to organizations like missing and exploited children. It is also things like that are in some ways smaller, but are trying to attack from all of the different areas. Another way in which we utilize our platform for this is where people go to search content on our platform, if they put in certain terms or words that may indicate that theyre looking to traffic or theyre looking to connect with someone who traffics. We will pop up not only an indication that thats not a lot on our 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. I think that one is particularly important because one of the things that anybody 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 that opportunity that may feel safe for them to do that is important. And we work on these things is through program attic work, one of the things we do is we have what we call a child Safety Hackathon and it focuses on the child victims exploitation and we bring together our Industry Partners so the other Major Players in the tech world to bring about 80 to 100 engineers to our headquarters in menlo park to take on the technological challenges, so we know that Law Enforcement doesnt always have access to the technology that they need and the National Center for missing and exploited children dont always have access to the technologies that they need to keep up with the perpetrators of these crimes and so these engineers come together for what we call hack, which is about a 48hour i dont know, what normal people like me would call a brainstorm, but actually building things. So its even better than a brainstorm where they will build technological tools and advancement for these ngos that work on sex trafficking. Some really Interesting Technology has come out where were utilizing facial recognition to match photos of people being exploited with images out on the internet to help try to locate those victims. I want to give one callout to an organization they believe is here today. An Organization Called thorn that works very specifically with this type of technology for Law Enforcement. They, in particular, have a unique tool called spotlight which hopfully well get a chance to talk about today which is promising and something we should be getting into the hands of all Law Enforcement officials. The next thing is really working with partners. I started with that, but i cant really underemphasize these partnerships. We are experts at building human connections 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, where we brought in these experts to talk about patterns that we could share with our engineers so they could build technologies to spot this stuff on our platform and the last thing was working with the people who are utilizing our platform to really understand where these abuses are coming from and working with victims. Thanks so much. Rotary National Convention was in atlanta and we had Ashton Kuchar was there with the cofounder of thorn and senator bob corker and gary hogan and rebecca bennett, a survivor, but the impact that ashton had on the audience was 48,000 rotarians from 160 countries. The impact of him telling a story, and not just of catching the criminals and trying to understand why they do what they do had an amazing impact and i do applaud their work and they do amazing work, as well. I really appreciate their work and youre exactly right. Thank you for that. Nicole, lets turn to ups. Ups is an Amazing Organization doing research and getting ready for this. In 2016 they delivered 4. 9 billion packages. Can you imagine . Theyre everywhere and the training we do with the employees and like i say, theyre everywhere and weve had some amazing discussions just today about what well do in the super bowl in atlanta and other things that well talk through as we go through the panel so thanks for being here. Thanks for your commitment, too. Thank you for having us, david. Thank you to the department of justice for hosting this panel and bringing together the folks of 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 Attorney Generals Office from georgia contacted us they asked if we can fund a see something Say Something campaign and part of ups is to work with all of the a. G. S, and i had no idea that Human Trafficking was an issue. I certainly had no idea that atlanta had the distinction of being the number one city for sex trafficking. Im from georgia. I live in d. C. Now, but it just seemed unfathomable to me that atlanta could bear that statistic and so we helped underwrite the see something, Say Something campaign, but 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 and your Human Capital, oftentimes its even better than underwriting an initiative and we started thinking about our drivers because weve got more than 100,000 drivers that come into cities and all of this zip codes around the country and theyre naturally trained to be alert. Theyre naturally trained to be safe and they feel a responsibility to the communities and the folks that theyre around and 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 utilizes the human side of who they are every day, and so using community development, using partnerships and its extremely important and so we found an organization that had been doing amazing work called truckers against trafficking and based in colorado and we started working with truckers against trafficking to customize a program for our drivers. We also thought it was very important to have a robust policy so that our employees around the world understood that we had zero tolerance for Human Trafficking, and whether it was using our vehicles or supporting it in any way through our Company Property and i think its extremely important to stand up a policy and be very clear about that so that theres not any questions and so that they understand also about who 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 how we can really use our reach as a Large Company to do more than write a check and also empower our employees to 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 so were looking at making sure that every driver that walks through the door and puts on a brown uniform whether theyre the freight driver or the package drivers that come to your homes every day understand that we mean business about this and that they have an opportunity to do something. I want to recognize my colleague angie brewer who is in hr who is an extremely valuable partner in looking 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 continue to move these programs forward and to give them life so that they can be institutionalized. Angie, thanks for being here. I have to second that, too, because angie was at our conference with president carter in 2015, and she didnt let go. She said weve got to do something. She kept driving and driving and she wouldnt leave him alone and i appreciate your effort. Its amazing. Audrey with ronstadt, with the amazing work that you all do, and not just obviously as a company, but the fact that you are able to empower these survivors, wellspring living and mary francis talked about earlier and you see some amazing survivors out in the audience and theyre thrivers now and i appreciate your, forts 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. Its an honor to be here with these esteemed guests and colleagues and many of them are ronstadt 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 ronstadt we have a program called higher hope. The higher hope program is in partnership with wellsprings living and mary francis 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 for dealing with the total health of the woman and this is for young women who have been survivors of trafficking and exploitation and homelessness. The first phase, we partner with communitybased partners with additional things that they need. We recognize they need counseling. They need housing and things corporations cant provide and that helps the buildup and the necessities and tandem to that we provide the training for them for ten weeks in the first phase. At the end of that first phase they graduate and then they have an opportunity if theyre still with the program which many of them do, about 90 stick with it and were really excited about that track record. They graduate and interview for a paid apprenticeship. We pay it, we fund it. Im very thankful to our ceo linda galipo who has been a huge advocate for this, our cfo, and ronstadt source wright and Rebecca Henderson who provides the work for the actual apprenticeship. So in the apprenticeship they get live, on the job training and theyre actually, woing in the offices and theyre getting training every day and theyre doing real work supporting our clients like ups and delta, anthem and cocacola. They provide us with a supplemental part of our workforce and they are treated just like any part of our family. At the end of the 12 weeks we much on to a the thrive phase where they interview, they actually do a presentation for our executives. They talk about what theyve learned through their journey through the higher hope program and they have an opportunity to interview for longer term positions with our client partners as well as with internal to ronstadt. We are really proud of the work that we do for higher hope because at the end of the day in the words of dr. Martin luther king, lifes most persistent, urgent question is what will we do for others . If we, the Business Community, and the ones that have the power or the platform and the advocacy and the voice to be there for the voiceless, for those who do not have anyone in their corn toer to support them, that is meaningful and in addition to that we have the supplier code which makes sure that anybody were doing business with adheres to which has a clause in that, which says you are going to adhere to all of the International Laws against child labor and all of the International Laws against Human Trafficking no matter what country youre doing business with us in and i am really proud of the work were doing with them there. Thank you very much. Just to follow up. Two years ago, i was at a luncheon that mary francis hosted in 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 so to see the impact of those people. I tell the stories all of the time and to see the impact because if we save these girls, women and we dont do something for them after that and we dont give them a sustainable life and go right back into it so the work that you all do is unbelievable and rich, last, but not least because delta i worked with for many years and they did an amazing job on that and the ceo ed bastion has hosted a breakfast at the end of march in conjunction with the Atlanta Rotary Club to have other ceos kind of challenge them to take this issue on, but one thing about this issue with all these companies, was there an event last night that polaris hosted in atlanta and a moderated panel and well do amazing work they were doing. One of your employees was there, came up and raised his hand and sid work for delta, let me tell you what else were doing. This is all these companies, see the energy and excitement because i think the Younger Generation doesnt want to work 9 00 to 5 00, they want to change the worl. Thats what these issues do. The employ ears going to be happier, the world is going to be better and now these of these companies are coming out front, more companies are going to come along. If you want to give us a review of some things, maybe mention the little flyer that youre sitting in the seats of all the planes. Well, david, thank you for hosting this and department of justice again thank you for being willing to bring this group together to talk about this important issue. My personal judge began with mary francis but about eight years ago she shot down with me and two hours later as i was in tears she had given me the great idea of the nature of the problem, the scope of the problem, and more importantly the proximity of the problem. I didnt realize this was happening in my own backyard. So fast forward to about nine months ago i was asked to be on the Steering Committee for antiHuman Trafficking at delta and i gladly jumped on the opportunity to do that. And it was very, very refreshing right off the bat to realize that while this committee is the Steering Committee is being run by our senior Vice President for inflight services, the sponsor of it overall is our ceo ed bastion. And he and his wife are heavily involved in this effort and they have a real passion for it. So it goes it helps 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 into our employees and im not surprised that someone jumped up and said, hey, im involved in it too because weve tried over the last couple of years to educate all 80 thouf o,000 of our emplo about the issue. This year the snowstorm prevented from us having our kickoff but in a couple of weeks well have our kickoff campaign. Ashley judd is the keynote speaker of that. Well have a hundred or so employees that the event to highlight what we do. From the education piece, again, 80,000 of our employees are trained in this. Its a focus on our frontline employees, our pilots, flight attendants, gate agents. But every employee at delta needs to be aware of the issue and what we can do to combat it and what signs we need to see to help identify it and report it. So from a frontline employee pointed of view, our pilots, flight attendants, gate agents, theyre receiving annual recurrent training about the issue to make sure theyre aware of it. They look for signs both from a victim side and from a user side or a predator side what are they seeing . But why are we doing it . Were doing it because this is going on into 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 we start to put in place, again, its the education of our employees, but it also extends to our communities. We look for opportunities to inform our communities. We look for opportunities for our employees to volunteer in our communities in this effort. We even try to educate our customers. And so youre going to see throughout the country, especially in atlanta and i believe in a little while charlotte youll see signs that are sponsored by delta and other agencies to highlight to the traveling public that, hey, theres an issue out here. And this is what you need to do. There are hotline numbers you can call. There are people you can report to to give your concerns of the things that you see. We have instituted voluntary programs where our million 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, a community perspective, a partners perspective, our other airline partners, klm, air france, our sky team partners, aeromexico, were trying to educate them and bring them along on how important this effort is. Again, where we fly and where we live. And finally we just want our victims to know, the victims of this horrific practice, and i obviously am being very, very kind when i use just those words. Because anyone whos aware of how bad this is, it just it just grabs you it graps grbs your very humanity that people could be involved in these kind of trades. What we want the victims to know is we see you, were with you, and were fighting four every day to try to end this absolutely horrific trafficking. Thank you. Thanks so much, rich. And just to give you another example how companies can really engage in this issue, when rotary national had our convention in the sumner atlanta, we had more than the survivor exhibit, had ska exhibit of survivors that tells a story of hope. Thats what this panel offers is hope to survivors. Well, we already had it down there so i called allison, chair of the Steering Committee for delta, i said would you like to disflay . Its already down here. And she not only display today, she put it in the main rotunda in the atlanta airport. It was supposed to there a week, she kept it there a month. Hundreds of people saw the stories. I would go down to the airport just to see and watch people read the stories. So the impact that a company is have is enormous and i appreciate what you all and the willingness to do something new, i mean, you call them and, yeah, wed be glad do it. So i really appreciate that. Im going to turn to shelly. If you would expand a little bit on the Freedom Council, the little bit about the work had you done with rotary in minnesota for the super bowl and well talk more about what were going to do in atlanta. Were going to take care of business in atlanta for sure. Absolutely. Maybe ill start with a couple of facts about the Freedom Council. Its, i believe and i think this is accurate, that the Freedom Council is by large, the Largest Alliance of companies coming together fighting this issue. And when i say that, its not just about checking off a box, you know, not just about being on paper, its about fighting this issue. Im talking about these Council Members, these companies, we meet weekly, we meet biweekly on focused efforts and each company goes away with multiple deliverbles and they spend enormous amount of time, effort in bringing solutions to the table. So in terms of the Freedom Council, we have two verticals, you know, within the umbrella of Freedom Council. Once on 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. We dont have a shortage of ng ohs. But maybe there was an opportunity is to bring collaboration, making sure that all ngos are Work Together, connecting the dots, bringing collaboration to the space. In that vertical, technology plays a Critical Role and ill talk a little bit about some of the examples where we have aligned technology to our efforts in this country. And then the second vertical is our international effort. Contrary to what i mentioned earlier about the United States, outside this country internationally, particularly in large Human Trafficking concentrated areas like in asia pacific region, the focus needs to be more on restoration, rescue as well, but there seems to be perhaps lack of focused efforts in helping these individuals have a focus and purpose in life and bringing them back to a normal life, which is extremely critical. And so our focus in the International Sector is from the restoration perspective. So as i come back to our work in the United States and back to your question, david, you know, maybe three, four examples that come to my mind, ill stand with anthems work. Anthem say large healthcare company. We touch millions of members, we touch millions of many communities, many institutions, many healthcare providers. So as an organization we understand the unique opportunity we have in this space. You know, and when you look at the fight that we have against this evil, it starts with identification, it also includes rescue, it includes restoration, it includes prevention. And all these strategic sectors have health in common. And so from an anthem perspective, weve been one of the very first members of the council for all these reasons, and our immediate focus is to spread awareness. So we have more than 50,000 employees and were focusing on how to get this word out through many channels, including webinars and emails and news letters as well as screen savers. And last month, as you know, it was a Human Trafficking month so we had clearly targeted efforts towards that. But expanding on other Council Members, technology, like i mentioned earlier, plays a big role in this space. So with the effort of deloitte, and they brought in more than 55 consult toonts suppo consultants to support us in this effort. What weve built say survey tool. And the thats nothing but it allows us to get our arms around what is in place from a support system standpoint in every community, every sector. So if i can tell what you used to be in place or what may be in place in many areas even today is is that as soon as we have a focused effort, you go to a community and the first thing we want to know is what is in place . But what that also tells us is even more importantly what is not in place. And that effort trying to get our arms around all the efforts happening in that Community Takes anywhere from 15 to 18 months. And what this Technology Solution has allowed us to do, the survey tool, is that we can get there in few minutes. And once we have that information, now we can look at what are the gaps . Where do we need to get involved somehow can we have a Strategic Focus towards fill in those gaps . So this survey tool has been reviewed with many states. We have more than seven states already aligned to leverage this tool. And coming back to your question about super bowl and i believe the attorney general from minnesota spoke to this issue, when you have a large event like super bowl, it elevates the importance of awareness. And the Freedom Council has been a part of the efforts that are taking place in support of the upcoming minneapolis super bowl and we spent an enormous effort, particularly partnering with the rotary as well as the help of oracle and other Council Member, and together the first effort that we did initiate is to leverage this tool that i was referring to, the survey tool. And based on that, we have been able to establish very strategic efforts towards awareness as well as prevention. So that would be a great example that showcases the value of technology as well as partnership in this council. Maybe just another quick point is that there is so much information out there about what you need to do when and that includes, you know, articles, reference documents, tool kits. So one of the things that the Council Member took from us is to build that online tool, that goto place, onestopshop per se, which has vetted very rich information about all these different Knowledge Base articles, tool kits, and to go to one place to gather all that information. And we have almost completed that effort with a help of one of the Council Members named expedite, and were just getting ready to launch that tool. And the benefit of that tool is that it not only helps us all as a community, as a goodto plat but for Law Enforcement we have a vetered goto place as well. Theres several, many more to list but i think that captures some of our highlights. Thanks so much. Thats great. And for facebook, you talked about working with different partners, different ngos as partners. Id love to kind of elaborate on the work youre doing with thorn and mcnick and across platforms and how you integrate that and how that would affect the reduction of trafficking or how you may catch some people. Well, first i actually just want to its great to come to these because sometimes you get another new idea. Interestingly with this work that youre talking about, theres a particular ngo that is working on activating communities. So when you see a path of trafficking that may be occurring, often times around refugee communities, they have been utilizing our platform, not just literally through groups and other connections on the platform to Energy Communities to basically build a resilient response. And first of all get to victims, but also try to shut down the trafficking in those communities. And it just strikes me the port that will youre building and talking about could be a really great intersection for all three of us to Work Together. So im glad i was here today. To give an example in some of the ways we would work with some of our partners, i guess ill call out thorn again. We one of the things that we know is that people who engage this this kind of trafficking will often times start by trying to collect images from a victim and then utilize those images as a way of then extorting additional behaviors. And so we have been working with thorn to put together a psa about when someone is trying to collect those images from you and how you can reach out to get help. And thats a psa that we launched with them, we run it on our platform as well as other places running it more currently and discussion about basically translating into a number of different languages. Another thing that we are currently working on, actually this is with the state attorneys general, a series of psas targeted within the state. So the states attorney general often have programs to reach out to victims or connect with victims. But dont necessarily always have the resources to because theyre a government agency, to do the kind of outreach at scale. And so we are currently working with them to put together a series of psas, reaching out with each state having its own call to action depending on what it is that that particular attorney general wants to do as a call to action. So those are some of the smaller, you know, smaller ways i say small, theyre each individual small pieces, but at scale they can be large. Another thing that we really have been trying to do more of late is to actually have our partners bring information to us that helps combat what we see that happens on the platform. And so early i talked about policies. We have, obviously, a policy against trafficking on our platform. We know sometimes will attempt to use pages on our platform which is basically a part of our platform where people will set up a page to put to maybe advertise that they are willing to that theyre trafficking someone. Theyre very clever at trying hide exactly whats going on on the page. They dont say explicitly what theyre doing. But, we can look at that page, we can have some sense that thats what theyre doing but its not clear to us that theyre definitely doing that. Weve started a program with our trusted partners where they will come to us to help make that connection. So if they have they know that theres a connection to a website where theyre actually directly trafficking or if theres a connection to a place offline where theyre directly traffic, they can bring that information to us to make it easier for us to take down those pages. Thanks so much. Whats great about knowing the event thats happened with the Justice Department is amazing but the conversations weve had about how we can collaborate is amazing. Even the super bowl, what we can do together. Because i think in the past years past everybody was doing things separately. But if we collaborate and the collective impact of these Amazing Companies can really change the world. Id love for nicole to kind of expand on what we talked about in the super bowl and then maybe, brent, you can tag on that some of the things we talked about collaborating during the super bowl coming up and in line with next year. Thank you so much. This is completely aspirational but its under q1 u one of those if you think it into existence and talk about it it will surely happen. Atlanta is going to be hosting the super bowl next year and of course unfortunately sports activities like the super bowl, like the ncaa are prime time for this sex trafficking and for some of this elicit activity. So what weve been thinking about is a way to bring nchtion around the super bowl, the siem that the super bowl will be in atlanta through truckers against trafficking by having their mobile museum. They have a 45foot tractor trailer. Ups donates labor to be we hitch our ups tractor to their trailer and we pull this museum around the country. And there are a number of other companies that also volunteer do this. And so since ups is based in atlanta, were brainstorming wouldnt it be interesting to have the truckers against trafficking mobile museum as part of the Fan Experience during the super bowl. Because we think theres ways that really just introducing people into this concept, just to get them thinking. And i find that when were talking to folks about human traffic, you have to have two or three conversations before it really sinks in because the first is the shock, its embarrassing, its not comfortable at all. And im remembering one of our executives at ups that called me up after i was sort of stalking him to support this and he called me, he said, i saw it on law and order, i saw it. And it was this light bulb moment. I think that, you know, really helps folks understand once you socialize it. So perhaps the truckers against trafficking mobile museum is one way that can socialize through the Fan Experience. And then bring that awareness to the sports fans that are at the nfl. And so hopefully we can make that happen. Thats great. Brent, you want to expand on kind of some of the things weve talked about . Youve got presence in downtown atlanta. The fact that we are in atlanta means we will be engaged in that work, theres no doubt about that whatsoever. But i think its important to recognize weve doing a lot of work with a platform thats multi sector ngo government around mega Sports Events like fifa world cup, like the olympic games. Large sport events provide a unique opportunity to marshal resources around a whole range of human rights issues. But in terms of the way countries are chosen to host these events, through the planning of the event itself and the various actors that are involved in that process, during the hosting of the event while the sport is going on and whoa what going on in the Community Around it, and then the legacy issues of what do you take from that event that adds value to the Community Going forward. So i think as we look at super bowl increasingly Going Forward as being such a catalyst event, we need to think about what else we can address during that time as well. Because you also have issues around child labor, you have in some countries issues where people are disposed of their land, theyve moved off and cleared in order for certain events to be staged. Afterwards these people are not remediated but left alone, brazil being an example. And weve had others with world cups and with olympics. So, again, i think as we work and plan towards 2019 for the super bowl, theres a real opportunity for us to take a wholistic view of what we can actually positively impact on peoples human rights. Thats right. We even talked about in the very near future setting up a meeting with everybody to talk about how we can collaborate and how we can really make a difference. The great thing about these corporations is that theyve got the resources to make it happen. And i think sometimes with ngos there are limited resources. But these Companies Just do amazing work, so i really cant tell you how much i thank you for being here today. Andrea, if you would kind of expand a little bit on the power hope program, sort of what that process looks like when someone goes through therapy and then they end up getting internships and jobs, just kind of walk us through that process a little bit deeper if you would. Sure. So i think one of the things that, for me, as an executive in our company but also as a woman, as an american, and as a human being, i think that we have to look at it for what it is. You know, you have to meet people where they in life and not everybody is going to come up in a nice, buttonup suit and be ready go to work in day one. So i think we get past some of those societal biases and were able to get to the heart of lets start with the basics, you know, start with the training, lets start with our Career Readiness of how how do you write a resume . How do you interview for a job . How do you find a job . You know, many of the young girls that come through our program i think one of the things that we learn is, you know, we had one young lady in recent terms she didnt know how to answer an office phone. You wouldnt think that you would have to train some on how to shes used to using a cell phone and electronics, of course, but how to answer an office line. Just some of the basic things. Just taking the time and being very thoughtful in our training process. These are very smart and talented women and i think that when you can look at someone, these are brave people. For someone, these traffickers make 40,000 a week on average per victim. Theyd rather kill them then let them go free. Theyd rather see them dead than to see them living free. So for them to have the guts, the fortitude, just one glimpse of hope to be rescued and to take that step and join this program, in my book theyre already winners. Theyve already overcome more than any of us many this room could imagine. Unimaginable. So once we meet them where they are, we provide them with the training, we work very closely with we will springs with mary frin franciss organization in atlanta, and i think that thats really the partnership and collaboration is what makes it work. But it would not work without the support of our Human Capital within ronstadt. A lot of people donate thousands of hours of volunteer. None of us are paid for working specifically on a higher hope program there are is all volunteer run. Thats whats amazing about how its been so successful based on all the work that the volunteers have provided. Once that we were able to then get them the training that they need, we work with Corporate Partners like ups who has actually hired some of our higher hope participants. Im proud of that partnership and were thankful for ups and as well as with anthem and cocacola as well. So once they are hired on to jobs, we dont just let them go, we stay in contact with them for another 12 months to make sure how are they doing . How are they surviving . Do they have the care they need in the organization . Because we recognize as a business not all companies have a rich terry like at delta thats going to go and make sure that these victims, theyre not victims anymore, theyre survivors at this point, can move forward. And i think really the premise behind this is how can we make a more impactful, meaningful into this issue, how can we contribute to solving the problem and not being complicit by turning our backs and doing nothing . So i think as organizations and companies, theres a lot of fortune 5 hundreds that are not here today on this panel. I ask you to join us, join us in these efforts. These are amazing people that have come out to share the work that theyre companies are doing. And we cant make we cant do anything unless we Work Together with doj, with the states as well as our Corporate Partners. Thats exactly right. Theres a lot of things that happen in this issue that you dont think about, but for instance i was talking to a law firm and they wanted to get engaged. Well, the thing is, if a survivor has lost custody of their child, they need an attorney to get custody back. They need sometimes to have their felonies expunged off their records so that they can get a job because with a felony sometimes you cant get a job. So those kind of Legal Services are pretty easy for a lot of law firms to do since theres so many different ways that you can get involved. And i know this has been broadcast on cnn, companies see this, please contact the Justice Department say you want to get involved because it could make a difference. This can truly make a difference on this issue. Weve got about, see, about ten minutes left, id love if any comments, final comments anybody would like to make . They want to take a few questions from the audience . Anything that you want to add to that . Once again, thanks for everyone being here. And when i sit on panels like this and im asked questions, one of questions thats asked often is what do we do now . What i would ask, everyone in this room has heard a lot today about victims, youve heard about the trafficking itself, and i would ask that you would not just leave it in this room. I would ask that you take this and you have conversations with your neighbors, have you conversations with your families. If youre part of a corporation, have conversations with the movers and shakers and the decisionmakers in your corporations. Because the more that we raise the level of awareness, the more likely we are to kill the demand that jeff so eloquently talked about in the last panel. I would ask everyone here today, please dont just leave this here in this room. Its a beautiful room, but what we can do outside this room is far more important than what we do inside the room. So please, dont be afraid to tell your friends and neighbors about whats going on. Thats right. And we call it the power of one. Do what you can in your community, do one thing and if we do it collectively, the impact it can have is amazing. So wed love to take a few questions if anybody has anything else . Thank you. I had not planned on saying anything, but with a panel of global experts that serve everywhere, im a rowtarian, have been for over 20 years, but i work for an organization too called set free alliance. Rotary needs a lot of partners to make this happen, and you see the class of people and the organizations on the panel here. Were a small, nonprofit, a very quiet one. In the last five years, we have freed 14,000 slaves. Weve reunited 8,000 slaves with their parents. All the way to nepal. I think it was the Gates Foundation said to solve a problem you have to quantify a problem. And thats where the world Global Slavery Index came from. Im not going to go through the countries, but the second most country, and i mention this because this is a global constituency of up here. The second highest country with slaves in the world is china, 3. 5 million. The number one country in the world with the most slaves is india, 19 million. 19 million slaves, slavery comes in a lot of different forms and sex trafficking is slavery. In freeing these we still have tonight, tonight we will feed over 7,800 slaves. They get one bowl of rice a day and that costs 380,000 a month. We just finished building a 10 million facility that will hows 2,000 slaves. And we do have a program, though, too, and i mentioned this because, you know, rotary needs your help and theyll use Companies Like us, even small ones, that have a tremendous impact. But our role model, what we try to do, ill say it very quickly, is first we have to rescue the slaves. Slavery comes in a lot of different forms. We rescue the slaves, then we seek medical help. These are slaves from the mines that work into the quarries, they work in the brick factories, the brothels. Slavery is worldwide. We take them, we feed them, we get them medical help. We then get them an education, a threeyear education because were dealing with so many children. And after the education, we teach them an after vocation. I dont know if thats the rain or whats going on. But we have we teach them an avvocation. And whn they leave nus three years, they go out around the world with a one is they have hope for the first time in their lives. You know, yes, they go through theyve been through a lot of stress and things, but they go out and we help them get jobs with global companies. So, again, you know, it is nationwide and, again, i just wanted to applaud you all for just addressing it as a world problem against a huge problem in the United States, the thanks for the question. Appreciate it. Move on. We got another question out there . Thank you. Hi. Im with the u. S. Department of labor, International LaborAffairs Bureau and we do quite a bit of work on supply chain issues ranging from programming to by annually produced research on goods made with forced labor and we very recently produced a Smartphone App called comply chain to help the Business Community take a look at their supply chains. So my question to the panel is what do you need from us in government, whether thats the u. S. Government or whether its foreign governments overseas where you may be operating to help be a better partner to you, to help support your efforts more to be a better resource so that you can continue doing this work that you do and get more businesses involved in this effort . Thank you. Thanks for the question. We work a lot with the department of labor and appreciate that support and i think the support of agencies like the department of justice, like the department of homeland securities, Blue Campaign has been really important. One, to show the organization that this matters to the government. Ups is a federal contractor, most of the folks on this stage probably do some federal contracting, and so understanding that the government is behind this and is supportive of this initiative i think is the first thing that gives us credibility so that when we go to our corporate leaders, we can say heres why this matters. I mean, there are honestly thousands of things that we could be thinking about and putting our efforts behind. But when we know that the federal Government Supports and cares about this issue, thats, i think thats very helpful. So continuing to offer that support and that kind of partnership is integral. I think also understanding from a regulatory space sometimes sometimes businesses are a little bit reluctant to engage because theyre worried about more regulation and theyre concerned that putting their foot in this space may then shine a light on something that has an unintended consequence. And so i think continuing to allow businesses to talk about how they can play a valuable role in helping to combat Human Trafficking and force labor but also assuring businesses that you want to work with them to look at their businesses on an individual basis and not necessarily overregulate, i think will continue to help businesses feel comfortable about coming to the table. Brent, we are about a minute left put want to add to that . Just quickly, thats a great answer. I agree with everything you just said. I think it is important that legislation display a role. The fire regulation was a game changer here. Suddenly people had to Pay Attention to this in a way they werent paying attention before. Department of labor statistics is a safe choice. So the work that you do in promulgating and collecting information around the prevalence rates, the sorts of goods that are being made with forced labor is incredibly important. That feeds into our systems to make sure that were addressing those concerns when they arise. Smart regulation is important. Working with the Business Community and creating that legislation is helpful. But at the end of the day, more does matter. And there are many, many countries in the world where they have all the law in the world but no enforcement. So the judicial system, the way in which the enforcement agencies are resourced is vital in terms of u. S. Government outreach globally. If we could just get inspectors inspecting places properly, if we could get policemen with the powers and authorities do what they need to do to stop traffic, wed be a lot further ahead. So government has an incredibly Important Role to play in resourcing means to address it. So just to follow up on that last point, i think and to give a call out actually to the doj, we are part of an Organization Called we protect which is a Global Organization that brings together industry as well as governments as well as Law Enforcement agencies as well as ngos to look at these issues at a global level. We protect as put together a National Model for what it looks like in a country to have the resources that you need to combat the exploitation of children in particular. I think thats a really good working model for how to begin to look at these at these programs at a global level. And really would like to thank the doj for participating for putting its forces behind it. I just want to really thank this panel. Its an Amazing Group of individuals and company. Again, they do this on their own time. They work for the companies, they volunteer their time and theyre committed to this issue, i appreciate it but this is only the tip of the iceberg. The more people that see these companies doing this amazing work the more that will sign on and we will see a difference in any modern day slavery in the future. I feel confident. Thank you very much. Give them a big hand for being here. [ applause ] more on the budget tomorrow as David Shulkin testifies before the House Veterans Affairs committee. Thats live at 8 00 a. M. Here on cspan 3 put can also watch on cspan. Org or listen on our cspan radio app. And the Senate Debates immigration policy live on cspan 2, watch highlights of the floor action there tonight at 8 00 p. M. This weekend on American History tv on cspan 3, saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on lectures in history former Virginia GovernorDouglas Wilder at virginia Common Wealth university. I have a oneword definition that i use for politics. Can anyone guess what that is . And ive said one word would define politics. Money. Give me something thats a proposition before any tribunal that doesnt involve money. 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