Encouraged. Everybody enjoyed their lunch. Great. Perfect. All right. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you so much. It is my leisure today to moderate. If i can have your attention drawn to the bags in your chair, we have a journal in their which is amazing. We are going to have a nice discussion today. I would like to introduce the first lady. First lady edwards, if you could come forward. Class good afternoon. Thank you all so much for inviting us to be here. To be a part of this panel. I am especially delighted to be with first lady georgia. Thank you so much. She presented on a resume some of that was started during covid. So glad you are sharing and doing this work in georgia. Amazing work. We have helped to educate and raise awareness and Human Trafficking in each of our states. I am grateful for all he is doing to help stop the terrible crime. I can tell you that when i became first lady, this was not on my radar. It was one of those issues i had never heard of. Like many of the p
Great. Perfect. All right. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you so much. It is my leisure today to moderate. If i can have your attention drawn to the bags in your chair, we have a journal in their which is amazing. We are going to have a nice discussion today. I would like to introduce the first lady. First lady edwards, if you could come forward. Class good afternoon. Thank you all so much for inviting us to be here. To be a part of this panel. I am especially delighted to be with first lady georgia. Thank you so much. She presented on a resume some of that was started during covid. So glad you are sharing and doing this work in georgia. Amazing work. We have helped to educate and raise awareness and Human Trafficking in each of our states. I am grateful for all he is doing to help stop the terrible crime. I can tell you that when i became first lady, this was not on my radar. It was one of those issues i had never heard of. Like many of the people, i was the teacher and educator. I wa
4 30 eastern. Live coverage of the conference should get underway shortly. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please. Good morning, good morning, everyone. It is my high privilege to stand here and welcome you all to the United States department of justices Human Trafficking summit. My name is patrick hovakenian. A federal prosecutor, serving in the office of the associate attorney general in the headquartersment ive had the privilege of working on issues that were here to discuss today and hoping that this summit can be used to combat further Human Trafficking. If youd please join me m welcoming our department of justice leaders. The attorney general of the United States, jeff sessions. [applaus [applause] the Deputy Attorney general of the United States, rod rosenstein. [applaus [applause] the associate attorney general of the United States, rachel brand. [applause] the acting assistant attorney general john cronin. [applause] and the acting attorney gen
Ranking official in the the third highest ranking official in the this. Efforts ton many of combat Human Trafficking. She was confirmed by the Senate Last Year and she had a Public Public service before becoming an associate attorney general. During that president Bush Administration she served at the white house special assistant to the president and associate counsel to the president. From 2005 to 2007, she was nominated by president bush and confirmed that the senate as assistant attorney general for legal policy. Served as the chief policy advisor to the attorney general, spearheaded the confirmations of the chief justice of the United States and Justice Samuel alito, alternating the administrations authorization of the patriot act. In 2012, president obama nominated her to serve as a member of the premises and Civil Liberties oversight board. She was confirmed and served board000 1210 2017 on the 20122017. Outside of federal government, she has been an associate professor of law,
Already exposed to some kind of instability in their lives, and there was a time when Law Enforcement across the country would say that cant be a Trafficking Victim because she was pretty prosecuted. They are now saying let me look at the trafficker exploited the vulnerability. There were times when Law Enforcement across the country would say a jury in my district will not believe an undocumented woman who knowingly came to this country illegally and did some knowing she would prostitute because thats just an illegal prostitute thats not going to be a sympathetic jury. Now we are seeing people say wait a minute, there is somebody behind this who facilitate that whole smuggling and prostitution scheme by manipulating this victim and knowing that she was not inclined to speak out and would not turn to authorities for help precisely because of those attitudes. Thats what we are transferring when data time one case at a time when survivor anytime and i look for to continuing to do that. T