Date
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Name
The Hope Forum: A Transparent Discussion on Discovering Life after Exploitation
Track
Research and Lived Experience
Speakers
Brent Woody, Justice Restoration Center
Crystal Berns, RAINN
Bradel Canfield, McColm & Company
Telisia Espinosa, Justice Restoration Center
Brigitte Jolliet, Kogan & DiSalvo
Jamie Rosseland, Arize Together
Marianne Thomas, My Name My Voice
Crystal Berns, RAINN
Bradel Canfield, McColm & Company
Telisia Espinosa, Justice Restoration Center
Brigitte Jolliet, Kogan & DiSalvo
Jamie Rosseland, Arize Together
Marianne Thomas, My Name My Voice







Description
Moderator: Brent Woody, Justice Restoration Center
The Hope Forum will feature a 6-member panel’s discussion of their diverse journeys into and out of exploitation, through recovery,  education, successes, failures, criminalization, fears, trauma, faith, and more, all to bring inspiration, information, and hope to survivors, and insight and resources to non-survivors. Panelists will include survivors of child and adult sex trafficking and labor trafficking. All are accomplished, compassionate advocates who live to speak life into other survivors and educate non-survivors.