Dr. Marian Hatcher Shared Hope Policy Consultant Ambassador-at-Large, United Nations Each January we start off the new year with renewed vigor to fight human trafficking as we acknowledge and consider the long road ahead during National Human Trafficking Prevention month. Of course, we know we can’t address Human Trafficking in one month, and the reality […]
Reflections on the Intersection of Mental Health, Human Trafficking and Unjust Criminalization
Dr. Marian Hatcher Shared Hope Policy Consultant Ambassador-at-Large, United Nations Last month was Mental Health Awareness month and as annual attention to this issue prompted introspection about my own personal experiences, I began to think about how the mental health needs of trafficking survivors so often intertwine with the need for federal vacatur and post-conviction […]
Justice for God’s glory: Soli Deo Gloria
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.” (Martin Luther King, Letter from the Birmingham jail) What is social justice? How does it differ from “Social Justice” (with capital letters), […]
Sex Trafficking & Long-Term Health: Recognizing the long-term physical health effects of traumatic stress
Written by Barbara Amaya with Holly Austin Gibbs Photography by Shanna Parker After we had been married for a few years, Jose and I got serious about starting a family. I had never been pregnant before, and, until Jose, I honestly hadn’t given the idea much thought, other than being grateful that I had never […]
I Blinked: The Impact of Retirement on an “Elder” Survivor, the Grief, the Reward!
Dr. Marian Hatcher Shared Hope Policy Consultant Ambassador-at-Large, United Nations Black History Month this year has a different meaning for me, its reflective, personal, communal, and generational. You might ask why? It’s actually very simple, as life usually is. I literally laughed out loud as I wrote this because, it’s us, the actors in this […]
