Human+Trafficking

Please welcome Kathy Xian to class! Award-winning organizer and filmmaker Xian is one of the founding members of the [|Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery], the Non-Executive Director of [|Girl Fest Hawaii,] the Director of Development and Communications for at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and the Publisher of the newly launched, Hawaii Women's Journal. Since 1999, she has been raising local awareness of the trafficking of women and children for sex to and from Honolulu and has influenced the passage of law with regard to sex tours and promoting prostitution. In 2004, with the help of Equality Now, she led a publicity campaign incorporating a public rally and testimonials at the State legislature which resulted in the signing of Act 82, the first law in the nation to outlaw sex-tourism. In 2008, she successfully demanded and saw pass the age defining a minor victim in Promoting Prostitution in the First Degree (in Hawaii) raise from “less than 16 years of age” to “less than 18 years of age” (Act 147). She co-founded the Rape-Free Zone Coalition, which was responsible for enacting change at the University of Hawaii on August 29th 2005 to declare its system (10 Campuses) Rape-Free Zones and requiring all managerial and executive staff to attend an anti-sexism leadership training at Girl Fest led by Jackson Katz, former member of the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Task Force on Domestic Violence in the Military and founder of MVP Strategies; an unprecedented event in the University’s history. Xian was also awarded the 2005 Ellison Onizuka Human and Civil Rights Award by the National Education Association on July 2nd 2005 and is the recipient of the Soroptimists International of the America's Women Making a Difference for Women Award 2006. She was also one of five distinguished finalists in Glamour Magazine's Women of Your Year Awards 2009. She is currently vigorously advocating for the passage and implementation of state legislation to enact Hawaii’s first anti human-trafficking statute.

**Please watch the following [|video]** in preparation for Kathy's visit.

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