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Florida Southwestern State College to Hold Human Trafficking Awareness Events

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January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month. Human trafficking is a crime that involves force, fraud or coercion to make someone perform labor, services or commercial sex, as defined by theU.S. Department of Defense. Join us as we discuss the impact of human trafficking with Lauren McCraney and Nola Theiss, the program coordinator and executive director, respectively, of theHuman Trafficking Awareness Partnerships.

It'spartnering with Florida Southwestern State College to raise awareness for those affected by human trafficking with several events at the FSW Lee campus.Dr. Wendy Chase, humanities professor at FSW, also joins us in the studio to discuss the upcoming awareness events. A detailedlistof the events can be found at the Human Trafficking Awareness Partnership website.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.