The Freedom Coalition brings together experienced community advocates, for a unified approach to address human trafficking through prevention, awareness, survivor support, and specialized training. The Freedom Coalition plans to meet the 4th Tuesday of every other month for the sharing of best practices, case studies, education, and training.

Zoom Online Meeting – August 25, 2020
5:30 – 7:00 pm (EST)

“COVID Impact on the Underground Commercial Sex Economy Online”
Guest Speaker: Rob Spectre
The global pandemic affects every market in the world and the online ecosystems that fuel sex trafficking in the United States are similarly impacted. This survey captures the state of COVID’s impact on the underground commercial sex economy as of August 2020.

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Speaker Bio: Rob Spectre is a New York-based technologist building childsafe.ai, the artificial intelligence platform protecting kids online. He is a 13-year veteran of software startups such as SugarCRM, Boxee, and Twilio. Before founding childsafe.ai, Rob spent a year as a technical consultant for counter human trafficking units across the United States. Learning from those law enforcement partners, Rob creates machine learning software that starves the macroeconomy fueling modern slavery of its wealth, anonymity, and distribution. A software engineer by trade and a historian by training, Rob also serves youth organizations HackNY and DoSomething.org as an advisor, plays in a punk rock band, and is the loudest Red Sox fan in New York.