Dr. Shelly M. Wagers serves as the Associate Director of the USF TIP Lab and is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida. She has worked in the field of interpersonal violence for over 25 years: first as an advocate, then as a law enforcement officer and now as a research analyst and scholar. Her expertise includes developing researcher-practitioner partnerships with advocates, law enforcement and the courts to strengthen policies and programs. She is the Director of the BRIGHT Project, an interactive digital platform that brings Human Trafficking service providers together into an integrated and coordinated network of care to connect victims and survivors to individualized need-based resources.