My group invited Lima James to come speak to the eighth grade about Human Trafficking. She talked about what Human Trafficking is, how it happens, how to identify it, and other general things about Human Trafficking.
Lima James who works at LifeWay Network, who we had a fieldwork with in the past, decided to come in and talk to the 8th graders about human trafficking. She has a presentation prepared and gave everyone a basic understanding of the issue.
I went to the Women’s March in NYC. I marched for about 3 hours. This was an incredible experience to see so many people there, men and women. I cheered, chanted, and walked and felt so powerful afetr
I watched the documentary “I Am Jane Doe”, which is about the cases against Backpage.com.
I went to the women’s march with LREI and marched with a lot of people. Before I went to the march, I met everyone who was marching from LREI at the high school and made posters. Then everyone from LREI headed uptown to the march together. We didn’t really get the opportunity to actually march. After standing still and chanting for a few hours, we walked up the side of the barriers.
We met with Lima James. It was not a normal interview. She told us about herself and everything she does for Lifeway. She then had us talk about ourselves and asked us questions. Next we got to walk around the office and meet all the members who work there. We talked to them and listened to them explain what they do and then ask and answer questions.
We met with her at LPQ and interviewed her on herself, and the organization she works at (restore). We just talked about all the questions we had and she then asked us some questions.
My group and I went to Lifeway Network’s office in Queens. We met and interviewed many women with leadership positions at Lifeway Network. We even got to talk to the founder of this organization.
We went to the SafeHorizon office in Brooklyn, and we interviewed the manager of training, Noelle Fries. She told us how she and her Mandarin-speaking colleague train people to work with trafficked women. SafeHorizon’s safe house only takes on foreign women, and they have only one house.
We met Cindy at Le Pain Quotidian, and we asked her what she did and how she got started, and other things. She told us about her job, and we talked about the Social Justice Project.
We visited the LifeWay Network office in Queens, which turned out to be in an old convent. We had a short interview with Lima James, the Education and Development manager, and she told us what LifeWay does. They offer legal and passport services for foreign women, and they have 4 safe homes for survivors of labor or sex trafficking, each with 3 sisters (nuns) living in them to supervise. The first house has 2 beds always open, and is the emergency house. The second has 5 beds. The third has 7 beds, and so does the fourth, although the fourth is mostly for women with small children. Then we went on a tour of the office and met with the following people: Sister Melissa (the development manager, who lives in one of the safe homes and works part-time), Courtney (the human resources manager), Jeanie (the main accountant and technology person), and Sister Joan (the founder). They told us who they were and their jobs, and we told them about the Social Justice project. Jeanie even gave us a sneak peek at the new website she is designing for LifeWay Network. It’s definitely better than the one they have up right now.
We learned a lot more about the basics of Sex trafficking considering we hadn’t really known much about it before. Going into this we barley even knew what sex trafficking really was. She made everything really clear and we now understand. We talked more about labor trafficking too, more than we thought we would because Noelle focused on all types of trafficking. This fieldwork was important because she helped us understand and really get a good start on our project.
My group interviewed Cindy Bombeeck, the Safe Home Manager at an organization called Restore.
My group went to Noelle Frie’s office in Brooklyn and interviewed her about what exactly she does and about Human Trafficking.
