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Emily Grace Clark

Sunrise Church Outreach Director

Emily Grace Clark is a Case Manager with Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center, the largest homeless outreach ministry in Austin, TX, . She is a professional musician of 15 years, and she works for a church/social work hybrid, specializing in high-risk clients.

Sarassa Inglis

Ransomed Life, Director of Administration

Sarassa Inglis first became passionate about the victims and survivors of human trafficking in college. She was part of the first mentor class with Ransomed Life and has been mentoring the same beautiful girl for 2.5 years now. She desires to see the victims find a place of restoration and healing. Sarassa came on board full time with Ransomed Life in 2016 as the Director of Operations. She handles the procedures and processes for all volunteers, maintains government compliance, oversees Ransomed Life’s programs and budgets, and trains and directs the mentor program. Sarassa holds a Bachelor’s degree from Birmingham Southern College in Psychology.

Cecilia Lopez

A21 Freedom Chasers, San Antonio Chapter Leader

Cecilia is the creator of A21 Freedom Chasers, a non-profit organization that brings awareness to human trafficking in the San Antonio, TX area. A21 Freedom Chasers is a member of the AACAT and a host of the A21 Walk for Freedom.

Lisa Michelle

No Strings Attached

Lisa Michelle is the social entrepreneur behind the beauty brand Lily & Co., an abolitionist and the founder of No Strings Attached Ministries. Her beauty products provide funding for safe houses around the globe and NSA Ministries provides a safe place for women to heal from the aftermath of sexual exploitation. She is a mentor for DMST (Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking) survivors in juvenile detention with The Refuge DMST. She has dedicated her life to this cause.

She is a survivor of sexual exploitation and trauma and tells her story to help women to find beauty in their scars as she has found beauty in hers.

• http://www.lilynco.net
• http://www.nsagirls.org

Judge Laura Parker

Bexar Co. Felony Court Judge, Former Juvenile Justice District Judge

Laura Parker served as the judge of the 386th Juvenile District Court for over 17 years. During her tenure she founded three specialty court programs: Restore Court, for teenage victims of human sex trafficking, Crossroads Girls Mental Health Court and the Bexar County Juvenile Drug Court. Judge Parker is Board Certified in Juvenile Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and previously served on the Executive Board of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. Currently, she is a Board Director for the Center for Health Care Services and is a member of the Alamo Youth Center Advisory Council. Although she is retired from public office, she continues to be engaged with efforts to combat human sex trafficking.

Chuck Paul

Alamo Youth Center

Chuck Paul is a consultant, trainer, speaker, facilitator, private investigator, and advocate with over ten years of federal service and twelve years of Texas state service. Chuck began his lifetime of service as solider in the United States Army. He is a Desert Storm combat veteran. Chuck’s formal education includes a degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Youth and Human Services Nonprofit Management.

Chuck Paul is familiar with international human trafficking as a former U.S. Customs Officer on the American southwest border. Chuck learned about domestic minor sex trafficking having served twelve years as a Texas Department of Family & Protective Services Special Investigator. In 2016 Chuck was awarded by the Texas Governor for his work in developing the state protocol for response to cases of children running away, or abducted, from foster care. Chuck is considered a leading subject matter expert in areas of domestic minor sex trafficking, commercial exploitation of juveniles, missing children recovery, and advanced child abuse investigations.

In 2016, Chuck Paul left public service to dedicate his time to the fast-growing issues related to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST). In addition to providing his clients with training, group presentations, facilitation, consulting and coaching, Chuck also volunteers his time to non-profit organizations that are creating models that will provide comprehensive solutions for survivors of DMST. Chuck is dedicated to increasing public awareness and assisting non-profit, and government, organizations that are beginning to prioritize time and resources in address this rapidly growing issue of modern day slavery.

Experience:

• 1988-1992: Chuck Paul began his lifetime of service as solider. He is a Desert Storm combat veteran.
• 1993-2000: As an Officer in the U. S. Customs Service Chuck became familiar with international human trafficking.
• 2004-2016: Chuck left federal service and joined the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services as a Special Investigator. In this position, he performed advanced consultative and forensic investigative protective services duties. Chuck served on, and coordinated with, multi-agency teams to investigate hundreds of high-profile cases of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children. Chuck also worked to with multi-disciplinary teams in to develop restorative programs for victims.

Chuck was directly involved in the creation of cooperative multidisciplinary protective services actions involving law enforcement, medical professionals, protective services, and social services providers. These actions include programs to co-locate Texas Department of Family & Protective Services Special Investigators at police stations, and the creation of both the Drug Endangered Children and Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking response programs in Bexar County Texas.

Chuck’s additional duties included ten years as a Texas Department of Family & Protective Services Special Investigative Liaison to the San Antonio Police Department Special Victims’ Unit. He developed the process, and wrote the initial policies, for Texas Department of Family & Protective Services Special Investigative response to the problem of youths missing from foster placement. Chuck was directly involved in the development of procedures and recovery interview screening tools that are being used to identify foster youth victims of human trafficking.

Education:

Chuck has a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a minor in Youth and Human Services Nonprofit Management.

Community Service:

Chuck Paul is a member of the Alamo Area Coalition Against Trafficking. Chuck serves in the Alamo Area Coalition Against Trafficking facilities, training/marketing, and conference subcommittees. Chuck is the President of the Alamo Youth Center, Inc. which is a nonprofit agency he founded in 2016. Chuck serves on the Alamo Youth Center board as one of the directors. The mission of Alamo Youth Center, Inc. is to develop an emergency rescue and restorative facility for runaways and youth victims of commercial exploitation in Texas.

Patsy Rojero

Child Safe Family Support Specialist & Forensic Interviewer

Patsy Rojero is a Licensed Master Social Worker who specializes in working with sexually and physically abused youth as a Family Support Specialist and Forensic Interviewer at ChildSafe, Bexar County’s only Children’s Advocacy Center. Patsy’s mission is to not only protect, but help restore every child’s inherit sense of self-worth. She strives to foster dignity, hope, and trust in children who have been victimized by abuse and neglect.

Patsy defends trafficked and abused children by working with Child Advocates of San Antonio (CASA) as an advocate. She helped fight for a landmark criminal sentence for sexual abuse against a child in Bexar County. Patsy is also an avid volunteer with the San Antonio Police Department, providing outreach and education on domestic violence with a focus on the LGBTQ and the Deaf Community. She also works directly with victims by encouraging their cooperation with law enforcement and linking them to services within the community. Currently, Patsy is working on legislation which will further protect the rights of Texas children in foster care.

Patsy holds a Graduate Degree in Social Work from Texas State University and is also an alumnus of Our Lady of the Lake University’s Undergraduate Social Work program, where she specialized in domestic violence studies. In 2016, she was awarded the Silver Presidential Volunteer Service Award for service in her community. Patsy has over 250 hours of training in human trafficking, child abuse and domestic violence.