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Out of the Shadows: Super Bowl and Human Trafficking

Posted on February 9, 2021February 11, 2021 by Jessie Torres

With all due respect to baseball, football is America’s game and Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest single-day sporting event in the USA. I am even part of an annual fantasy football league with my family members. I grew up...Read More

Who’s In? Who’s Not?

Posted on November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by Jessie Torres

Last week, a colleague shared a story by Kieran Guilbert (for Reuters) about Costa Rica becoming the 47th nation to back a 2014 pact of a UN Treaty to combat forced labor. (See: Costa Rica Backs U.N. Treaty to Combat...Read More

Life Preservers Project Welcomes New Advisory Committee Member

Posted on September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 by Life Preservers Project

Life Preservers Project announced the recent addition of Jessie Torres to its advisory committee. Jessie is the Discovery Team Manager at Berger Singerman’s Miami office and a member of the Dispute Resolution team. He holds a JD from Nova...Read More

We Must Stay Vigilant

Posted on July 31, 2020August 12, 2020 by Life Preservers Project

By Maribel Rivera Human trafficking thrives on chaos and desperation in communities already ravaged by situations including addiction and poverty. While we do not – and cannot – know exactly what the long term affects of the global pandemic are...Read More

Be The Change

Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 by Life Preservers Project

Written by Guest Author: Nancy A. Ruffin It has been a really rough year so far. As we head into our third month of quarantine because of Covid-19, America finds itself fighting yet another illness, that which is White supremacy. Racism is...Read More

The Discussion Starts With Each of Us

Posted on June 16, 2020June 17, 2020 by Nikki Samuels

Over the last few weeks, we have been grappling with the senseless and horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and most recently Rayshard Brooks, as well as the 911 calls to the police about people of color...Read More

Do More, Be More, Help More!

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 by Jessie Torres

On March 12, 2020, I attended an event on Civil Rights & Human Trafficking at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center (in Fort Lauderdale, Florida). I attended despite the initial concerns hitting the U.S. news about Coronavirus. The...Read More

Super Bowl Response

Posted on February 5, 2020February 6, 2020 by Life Preservers Project

Super Bowl LIV provided America with a rare sporting moment: “nothing to hate” unless you’re from Northern California or Missouri. Both teams are jammed packed with young superstars who play hard ball. Plus, let’s all be honest, Andy Reid...Read More

Signs of Human Trafficking

Posted on January 30, 2020February 5, 2020 by Life Preservers Project

Present-day bondage and modernized enslavement including sex trafficking and involuntary coercion, otherwise infamously defined as human trafficking. The widespread and history-long epidemic still maintains its prevalence to this day with human trafficking only becoming illegal in the United States at...Read More

Recognizing National Human Trafficking Awareness All Month

Posted on January 5, 2020January 6, 2020 by Life Preservers Project

Written by Maribel Rivera In 2007, the United States Senate designated January 11th as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Three years later, the month of January was first declared as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month by Presidential Proclamation....Read More