Human Trafficking in 2018 and Beyond: A Multi-Factorial Practical Approach

November 16, 2018
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion MD Anderson Library
University of Houston

8:00am Registration and breakfast

8:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Pablo Pinto, Director, Center for Public Policy, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston
• Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano, Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, University of Houston Law Center
• Jim Granato, Executive Director, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston

8:50am Building Resilience to Safeguard America's Youth 

• Michelle Bouchard, President, HealthCorps, Advisory Committee member, Hobby School of Public Affairs

9:00am Distinguished Keynote Speaker: Victor Boutros, Founding Director, Human Trafficking Institute

9:30am Human Trafficking: Law, Law Enforcement and Academia

• Ed Gallagher, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Texas, Adjunct Faculty, Human Trafficking Law, UH Law Center (moderator)
• Dr. Elisa Ortega Velazquez, Research Professor International Law, IIJ-UNAM, Mexico 
• Sherri Zack, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Texas, Chairwoman, Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance (HTRA)
• Marianela Acuña Arreaza, Executive Director, Fe y Justicia Worker Center
• Jennifer Hohman, Flight for US and Houston 20

11:00am Coffee Break

11:15am Human Trafficking: Health, Public Health and Health Law

• Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano, Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, UH Law Center (moderator)
• Dr. Frances Recknor, DrPH, LCSW, Clinical Assistant Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
• Patricia Ravelo Blancas, Medical, Gender and Legal Anthropologist, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social – CIESAS, Mexico
• Dr. Phuong Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Program Director, BCM Anti-Human Trafficking Program
• Emily Freeborn, Senior Counselor, Human Trafficking, City of Houston

1:00pm Lunch Distinguished Keynote Speaker: Imanol de la Flor, Consul Legal Affairs & Protection, Consulate General from Mexico in Houston, Mexican Foreign Ministry - Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico-

2:00 PM Human Trafficking: Policy and Business Dimension

• Representative Garnet F. Coleman, Texas House of Representative, District 147
• Pablo Pinto, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Public Policy, Hobby School of Public Policy, UH (moderator)
• Mario Madrazo Ubach, Director General, Control and Migratory Verification, Instituto Nacional de Migracion, Mexico
• Dr. Nikolay Marinov, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Houston
• James Caruthers, Attorney, Children at Risk, Texas

3:45pm Coffee Break

4:00 PM Human Trafficking: The Victim and the Society

• Diane McManus, Clinical Supervising Attorney, Civil Practice Clinic, UH Law Center (moderator)
• Patricia Holmes, Attorney, Author “Searching for Pilar”
• Constance Rossiter, Social Responsibility Director, Houston YMCA, Trafficked Persons Assistance
• Elise Griesmeyer - de Broeck, Catholic Charities Cabrini Center's Crime Victims Supervisor
• Gonzalo Martínez de Vedia, Program Manager, Human Trafficking, McCain Institute, Arizona State University
• Kaylen Runyan, Community Education Specialist, United Against Human Trafficking (UAHT)

5:30pm Final Discussion and Conclusions

• Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano, Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, University of Houston Law Center