COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

I work with local, national, and international groups on human rights and social justice issues for marginalized communities. Currently, I am the co-founder and co-director of Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) Behind Bars, a chapter of SWOP-USA that works with incarcerated sex workers, victims of trafficking in the sex industry, and people convicted of trafficking to decrease the harms caused by criminalization of sex work and the long-term effects of incarceration and having a criminal record.

I was a founding board member of SWOP-USA and a board member of the Desiree Alliance, a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the United States working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services for sex workers. I have also been active in local SWOP chapters and am currently the co-coordinator of SWOP Tampa Bay. I have the privilege of being a project advisor to the Ark Alliance for Freedom, an organization that works to prevent and end labor and sex trafficking for male and transgender youth.