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Christina Bain is an Affiliate of the
Human Rights and Social Movements Program, and Program Administrator for the Carr
Center Initiative
to Stop Human Trafficking. Prior to her time at the Harvard Kennedy
School, Bain was appointed Executive Director of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on
Sexual and Domestic Violence, a statewide commission of over 340 public and private sector
partners. She previously served as Public Affairs Liaison to Massachusetts
Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, where she worked on domestic violence and criminal
justice issues, including human trafficking and sex offender management. Since 2006,
she has been a member of the Massachusetts
Human Trafficking Task Force, one of 42
statewide anti-trafficking task forces funded by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Bain also served as a Special Assistant to former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift.
At the Carr Center, she and Dr. McCarthy co-chair the Regional Working Group on Modern-Day
Slavery and Human Trafficking.
email:
christina_bain@ksg.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.9308
office:
R-204
E. Benjamin Skinner is an Affiliate of the
Human Rights and Social Movements Program, and a Fellow with the Carr Center Initiative
to Stop Human Trafficking. Raised in Wisconsin and northern Nigeria, where his father
served as a British colonial administrator, Skinner first learned about slavery as a child in
Quaker meeting. In 2003, as a writer on assignment in Sudan for Newsweek
International, he met his first survivor of slavery. Having flown in along with
an evangelical group purporting to buy slaves en masse to secure their freedom, Skinner
hitched a ride on a UN Cessna to the frontlines of the north-south Sudanese civil war. There
he met Muong Nyong. Like Skinner, Nyong was 27 at the time, yet unlike Skinner, he had
spent the first part of his life in bondage. Since that time, Skinner has traveled the
globe to find others like Nyong, a task which would prove to be the most daunting challenge of
his professional life. Going undercover when necessary, he has infiltrated trafficking
networks and slave quarries, urban child markets and illegal brothels. In the process,
he has become the first person in history to observe the sales of human beings on four
continents. His book, A Crime So Monstrous, tells the stories
of the lives of a few of these slaves, as well as his own often harrowing encounters with those
who sell, own, and free them.
email:
ben_skinner@hks.harvard.edu
phone:
617.496.9020
office:
R-203
Siddharth Kara is an Affiliate of the
Human Rights and Social Movements Program, and a Fellow with the Carr
Center Initiative to
Stop Human Trafficking. He is also the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside
the Business of Modern Slavery. Kara first encountered the horrors of
slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, he traveled to
fourteen countries across four continents to research these crimes, interviewing
over four hundred slaves, witnessing firsthand the sale of humans into slavery, and
confronting those who trafficked and exploited them. His book provides a rare
business and economic analysis of the global sex trafficking industry, and recommends
legal and tactical measures to help abolish slavery once and for all.
Kara advises on slavery for several organizations worldwide, including the Clinton
Global Initiative and Humanity United. Since 2004, he has served on the
board of directors of Free the Slaves. In 2005, he testified as an expert on
human trafficking before the US Congressional Human Rights Committee. He serves
on the committee founded by Kirk Douglas that is lobbying Congress to provide an
official apology for pre-bellum slavery. In 2009, he was selected as
a Fellow for the acclaimed TEDIndia conference.
Previously, Kara was an investment banker at Merrill, Lynch, then ran his own
finance and M&A consulting firm. He holds a Law degree from England,
MBA from Columbia University, and BA from Duke University.
