Stop Traffic Now will focus on how students and communities can be involved in efforts to combat trafficking in persons at a local level. Conference activities will emphasize the strength of grassroots efforts by hosting panelists with experiences as student activists, lawyers, academics, researchers, victims, advocates, and founders of human trafficking organizations. Delegates will be divided into discussion groups which will meet throughout the course of the conference to converse about the topics being presented, brainstorm methods of involvement, and network.

Conference activities will include:

  • Panels and speeches  
  • Films, exhibits and booths with information about human trafficking organizations and victims’ stories
  • Workshops that teach delegates how to write effective Op Eds and host awareness raising events 

Who: All high school & college students, faculty & staff, and community members who want to be activists in the fight against human trafficking

What: STOP TRAFFIC NOW: 2008 Anti-Human Trafficking Conference

Date: March 21-22, 2008

Place: University of Missouri; Columbia, Missouri.

(All events held in Memorial Union and Stewart Hall.            See maps.missouri.edu)

Host: Stop Traffic, Anti-Human Trafficking Activist Group

Sponsors: Columbia Human Rights Commission, MU Multicultural Center, College of Human Environmental Sciences, FAIR Fund, Chancellor's Diversity Initiative, Christian Chapel, Not for Sale, Hope House, Americans for Informed Democracy, Women's and Gender Studies Department, Women's and Gender Studies Undergraduate Group, Gamma Rho Lambda

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Delegate fees include:            

*3 meals and snacks                                                            *14 Speakers, panelists, and workshop facilitators                                                            *Materials 

Conference Attire: Business casual

Click here to download the Stop Traffic Now Conference Registration Form and register for Stop Traffic Now.  Send completed forms to  applications@stoptrafficnow.com with the subject line "REGISTRATION".  You will be contacted at a later date with information about payment options.

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Two speakers are free and open to the public!!!            

Andrea Powell, Founder of FAIR Fund      

Friday, March 21 @ 5:30 PM in Mark Twain Ballroom, Memorial Union

Theresa Flores, Victim and Survivor of Domestic Human Trafficking                                              

Saturday, March 22 @ 9:00 AM in Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union