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
Telisia Espinosa, Justice Restoration Center
Marianne Thomas, My Name My Voice
Brigitte Jolliet, Kogan & DiSalvo, P.A.
Crystal Berns, RAINN
Jamie Rosseland, Arize Together
Bradel Canfield, McColm & Company
Telisia Espinosa, Justice Restoration Center
Marianne Thomas, My Name My Voice
Brigitte Jolliet, Kogan & DiSalvo, P.A.
Crystal Berns, RAINN
Jamie Rosseland, Arize Together
Bradel Canfield, McColm & Company






Description
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.