Christina Love and Josie Heyano, both survivors of human trafficking, served on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking and helped shape the council’s 2024 report. They spoke with KTOO about the importance of survivor voices and the need for systemic change to address human trafficking.
Alaskans Christina Love and Josie Heyano served on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking and helped shape the council’s 2024 report. The report outlines the forms of human trafficking, suggests policies to address the underlying causes and points out holes in the justice system that allow this type of violence to continue.
Love, who lives in Juneau, and Heyano, an Anchorage resident, spoke with KTOO’s Yvonne Krumrey to talk about what it means to be a survivor and to take the stories of other survivors — and those who didn’t survive — to the desks of federal lawmakers. And a warning, these advocates discuss homelessness, sexual violence, drug use and suicide in this interview. My name is Josie Heyano. I am a presidential appointee to the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, which is an Advisory Council tasked with creating recommendations to the President’s interagency task force to combat trafficking. Hi. My name is Christina love and I’m 2024’s presidential appointee to the Council on Trafficking. People entrusted us with their stories, and we have a responsibility to receive those words, to not let them hit the floor and to lift them up. We recognize that Josie and I are in seats of privilege, you know, that there’s a lot of other people that could be here who aren’t — like, literally — and people who aren’t with us, right? The recognition of people who died, you know, like, what it means to be a survivor, is the recognition that we survive something that a lot of people don’t. In last year’s report, and I think we put it in this year’s report also there’s a dedication space. That was a really important piece to me when I first came into the counci
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