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Dr. Jean Baderschneider Receives 2016-17 Integrity in Action Award

The 18th Integrity in Action Award was given to Dr. Jean Baderschneider, CEO of Global Fund to End Slavery, on May 16, 2017. Alexander Block ’17 presented the award on behalf of the Honor Committee.
The Global Fund to End Slavery is an organization that promotes private-public partnerships to end the systemic issues that perpetuate modern slavery.

In her address to the Episcopal community, Dr. Baderschneider began with the story of how she became involved in the fight against human trafficking. She was in the airport on her way home from a business trip to Angola, in West Africa, when she saw an older man with a younger girl who appeared to have no possessions and was wearing a wig and clothes that made her appear to be older than she was. The two women made eye-contact, and Dr. Baderschneider knew that she needed help. When they boarded the plane, she tried to ask the flight attendants, stewards, and pilots for help. When the plane landed in London, she tried to ask other airport security and personnel for help. Each time she asked, Dr. Baderschneider was met with “We see this all the time but there is nothing we can do about it.”

She disagreed and began investigating ways to do more.

Today, more than 45 million people are enslaved. Modern slavery is all forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, forced marriage, and selling and exploitation of children. Runaways are the most vulnerable to the sex trade, and are, on average, picked up by a pimp or trafficker within 48 hours of leaving home.

Dr. Baderschneider encouraged the EHS community to raise awareness and take action by taking the slavery footprint survey, having class discussions, promoting research, and keeping an open dialogue. She ended by encouraging everyone to memorize the National Human Trafficking Hotline number: 1-888-3737-888
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