Events to Focus on Modern-Day Slavery
糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Office of Campus Life, in partnership with the nonprofit organization , is sponsoring three programs Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 26 and 27, to raise awareness of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The 鈥淪top Paying for Slavery Tour鈥 will include program, 鈥淪lavery Mapping 101鈥 at noon Tuesday, Oct. 26, in the Donaghey Student Center鈥檚 Ledbetter Hall A. The event will provide information about the many types of human trafficking. Participants also will learn how to research existing cases of modern-day slavery. At 6:30 p.m. also in Ledbetter Hall A, the tour continues with a 90-minute program implementing fast-past multimedia, video, live performances, stories, and reports from around the globe. At noon Wednesday, Oct. 27 in the Donaghey Student Center鈥檚 Leadership Lounge, a dynamic presentation 鈥淔ree2Work鈥 aims to introduce the next generation of business leaders to supply chain monitoring programs and how the power of social entrepreneurship can help; in the fight against human trafficking. The events are part of Campus Life鈥檚 鈥淧ower of Women鈥 programming series. All programs are free and open to the public. The was co-founded by University of San Francisco ethics professor, David Batstone, now president, and Mark Wexler, now executive director. Batstone is the author of seven books, the most recent ones 鈥淣ot For Sale,鈥 published by HarperOne; and 鈥淪aving the Corporate Soul,鈥 published by Jossey-Bass. He is a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and served six years as executive editor of Sojourners magazine and founder of the SojoMail e-zine. In Not For Sale, David oversees the strategic and financial opportunities, growth, and direction of Not For Sale Campaign. 聽He often represents Not For Sale during the Stop Paying for Slavery Tour and co-teaches the entrepreneur course content in Not For Sale Academy. Wexler found his vocational direction while working on the streets of Durban, South Africa, with Umthombo Street Children. His time in Southern Africa provided the learning space to help build the conceptual and material framework to combat modern-day slavery. As executive director of Not For Sale, Wexler coordinates and sustains strategic partnership agreements with other institutions and co-teaches an investigator course content in the Not For Sale Academy. His knowledge of the organization and modern day slavery is unparalleled and he represents Not for Sale at speaking engagements around the world. For more information about the 糖心Vlog传媒LR events, contact Jenny Dodson Hunt at 501-569-3308.View more stories in News