Working Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Together with the Carr Center The Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, the Sexuality, Gender and Human Rights Program convenes a monthly working group on human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Christina Bain and Timothy Patrick McCarthy co-chair the Working Group.

The Working Group is an unprecedented collaboration of scholars and practitioners from across New England, providing a monthly forum throughout the year to discuss new research methodologies and advocacy strategies on modern slavery and human trafficking. Its members represent a broad range of regional institutions: Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, Tufts University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University School of Law, Bentley University, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Boston University, and the University of Rhode Island.

With the dual goal of producing excellent scholarship and shaping effective policy, the Working Group seeks to bring together a diverse group of academics and activists uniformly committed to ending this global human rights crisis. At each meeting of the Working Group, members present their research for comments and criticism. The Carr Center will then produce a series of working papers and other publications on modern slavery and human trafficking.

The Working Group meets monthly during the academic year.

If you are a scholar and/or practitioner and would like to join the Working Group, please contact Christina Bain, christina_bain@harvard.edu. The Working Group is closed to students.

Current Working Group Members Include:

Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard Kennedy School
Christina Bain, Harvard Kennedy School
Girish J. Gulati, Bentley University
Malcolm Sparrow, Harvard Kennedy School
Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Harvard Kennedy School
Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Boston University
Alicia Foley Winn, Suffolk Law School
Amy Farrell, Northeastern University
Swanee Hunt, Harvard Kennedy School
Mary Setterholm, Harvard Divinity School
E. Benjamin Skinner, Brandeis University
Michael Shively, Abt Associates
Roy Ahn, Massachusetts General Hospital
Linda Williams, UMass Lowell
Kate Nace Day, Suffolk University Law School
Francis L. Delmonico, MD, Harvard Medical School
Lina Sidrys Nealon, Demand Abolition Program
Jhumka Gupta, Yale School of Public Health
Jack McDevitt, Northeastern University
Kirill Boychenko, Harvard Kennedy School
Sharon Weinblum, Harvard Kennedy School
and
Siddharth Kara, Harvard Kennedy School

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