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Raising Awareness Among Students About Human Trafficking

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Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships
Students Making an ARTREACH Banner

According to the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking Florida has one of the highest occurrences of human trafficking in the United States and is usually ranked in the top three. And this issue exists right here in Southwest Florida, and can happen right in front of people without them even realizing it.

We’re joined by Nola Theiss, Executive Director and founder of the Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships, it’s an education and outreach nonprofit that focuses on raising awareness off this issue -- mostly among students through their ARTREACH program. Ms. Theiss has spoken on this issue throughout Florida, the U.S., and around the world. We're alsojoined by their Program Coordinator, Lauren McCraney, who was instrumental in the development of the ARTREACH Program.

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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.