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Survivors of human trafficking are experts in healing, creative ways to thrive, advocacy and prevention. They have the lived-experience of surviving what many simply cannot imagine. At our core, we know that these experiences are what will inform the future of a survivor movement to end human trafficking. We are by survivors, for survivors.

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Injustice is at the core of exploitation and human trafficking. This injustice often starts well before the trafficking and goes on long afterwards.  It is our collective experience that more than half of survivors of exploitation and human trafficking experience arrest before being identified – and sometimes even after being identified – as victims of exploitation and trafficking. This leaves survivors with a legal black eye that restricts their access to jobs, education, safe housing and even may result in their children being removed from them.

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Our advocacy lab breaks down that injustice by focusing specifically on survivors whose injustice was compounded by the very systems that should protect and serve them. This includes the juvenile and adult justice systems, child welfare systems, the courts and other local and federal agencies. We support survivors currently incarnated as a result of their trafficking. This includes survivors who have committed crimes in self defense as well as those who committed crimes as a result of their trafficking situation. In 2018, 260 children were arrested for prostitution or solicitation.

Our current survivor freedom efforts

Karana Rising’s 2021 advocacy year focuses on freedom for survivors of sex trafficking wrongly charged and incarcerated in US jails. Our survivor led advocacy team provides advocacy, emotional support to survivors and family and all around media elevation to free survivors. We lean in and we give deeply to every survivor.

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Tiffany Simpson

Tiffany Simpson is a child sex trafficking survivor who was arrested in 2011 at age 17 after her trafficker  threatened to set her grandmother on fire and trafficked another teen girl. Tiffany is currently serving 20 years of a 30 year sentence in Pulaski State Prison in Hawkingsville, Georgia.

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Jessica & Jordan Hampton

Jordan was 14 when a trafficker was about to sell him and his 18 year old sister, Jessica, for sex. (Read: they were about to be raped). The man intent on buying them has a history of buying victims of trafficking from illicit massage businesses. Their trafficker has a history of playing with guns.

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EDUCATION  LAB

Human trafficking and exploitation are not inevitable. They are preventable. Youth who are at risk and their caretakers and teachers must understand what human trafficking is and how to stay safe or get help.

At Karana Rising, we take the lived experiences of our team to support new curriculums and partnerships to train and educate both adult frontline responders and youth.

We provide survivor-led consultations on developing safe homes, drop in centers, identifying youth who are experiencing exploitation, educating parents and caretakers on how to talk to kids about all forms of human trafficking. To learn more about consultation services with our team, please contact us.

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We have partnered with UNITAS and Freedom Fwd to deliver survivor-informed materials to youth in classrooms and online. 

Our team is proud to partner with UNITAS with their LIGHTS parent guide cirriculum to educate parents of children aged 11 to 18 about all forms of human trafficking.

LIGHTS PARENT GUIDE CURRICULUM

we are also proud to partner with Freedom Fwd to offer parents of children aged 8 to 11 information on how to talk to their children about human trafficking. You can learn more by visiting the newly released curriculum.

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WELLNESS LAB

Daily wellness means daily practice. We offer survivor-led and survivor-inspired solutions to support survivors and allies in their own wellness journeys. This includes virtual survivor meet up groups, one on one supportive counseling and mentoring, financial support for food and other basic needs, and survivor created blogs and videos that focus on the mind, body, and heart.

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DESIGN LAB

Survivors are creative. They have come from a place where they were told they were not valued   as anything more than someone else’s property. Many were branded or even re-named. In our design lab, survivors create vibrant designs out of upcycled and sustainable materials that represent their inner beauty and self respect. We offer weekly workshops and online and in person sales events featuring our unique jewelry and other artisan products.

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This space fosters creative ways to connect survivors to an ever-growing demand for survivor-made products.

Join us now in giving directly to a survivor in crisis or need.We offer survivors in our care direct access to services everyday.

FUNDRAISE

Fecha Talaso

Fecha Talaso is the co-founder and director of partnerships at Karana Rising. Fecha  is a certified victim advocate using her eight  years of advocacy and direct service work to cultivate staff growth and development to advance the mission of Karana Rising and the individual goals of the survivors on our team.

Fecha works alongside the executive director to develop and advance policies and programs supporting survivor justice and and healing, including external earned media and owned media consumption. Fecha is responsible for creating and managing Karana Rising’s communications, website, virtual survivor mentoring and workshop portal and social media channels. She is responsible for the development and management of programmatic and development partnerships. 

Prior to joining Karana Rising, Fecha was the prevention education specialist at FAIR Girls, a nonprofit that serves young women survivors of human trafficking, and residential counselor for FAIR Girls’ Vida Home. 
 
Longing for a day when justice is perfect with a deeper international lens from which to view the health and humanitarian challenges facing people around the globe,wealth of experience and practical experience in development and a deep belief in the power of partnership and collaboration and transformation of vulnerable populations and communities at large has continually reenergized the urge to change the world in her own little ways. She dares to dream and passionately to fight criminal and social injustices, as well as retrogressive practices that marginalize vulnerable populations like women and children. She can be reached at fecha@karanarising.org

Andrea Powell

Andrea Powell is the co-founder and executive director at Karana Rising. Ms. Powell is Karana Rising’s chief liaison to the D.C. Human Trafficking Task Force where she co-chairs the training and outreach committee.

 Prior to founding Karana Rising, Andrea was the founding executive director of FAIR Girls, a nonprofit that serves young women survivors of human trafficking. Ms. Powell is also the Director of Survivor and Youth Engagement at Unitas. In 2014, Andrea led the FAIR Girls’ team to create and open the only safe home for young survivors of human trafficking in the nation’s capital area. Andrea has led crisis response teams where she assisted law enforcement and other front-line responders in finding and recovering survivors of human trafficking who were later offered safety and supportive services. She received her Masters of European Union Law at the Center for European Integration Studies from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany and Bachelor of Arts and Science in International Relations from Texas State University. Andrea’s writing has been published in the New York Times, CNN, PBS, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, MSNBC, NBC THINX, Thompson Reuters, FAIR Observer, and the Washington Post. She also sits a private consultant for Freedom Fwd and Project Explorer. She can be reached at andrea@karanarising.com