Arizona Empathizes
Kicking off April, I gathered with some local advocates in Tucson, Arizona for an Engage event. Last year, iE was at the University of Arizona for Empathy week. It impacted many of the people there deeply. It is because of that event that this gathering, a year later, was easily put together. I shared an…
Engaging & Inspiring 80,000 Truckers
Two Toledo teens are trafficked at truck stops, motels, and travel plazas. One trucker’s phone call saved their lives…Watch the film here. Few industries convene on such a massive level the way the trucking industry does. We just returned from the Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY where 80,000 industry professionals from Germany, the…
2012 A Year in Pictures
To say it has been an incredible year is an understatement. 2012 was an amazing year expanding our work of addressing the needs of vulnerable and victimized kids and inspiring culture to empathize and engage. The year was all about empowering teens, investing in survivors’ futures, engaging truckers in the fight against child exploitation, developing…
At Risk Teens become Advocates and Abolitionists
Training At-Risk Teens to Recognize and Respond to Exploitive Situations “In the years that I have taught here, this is the first event we have ever done that students are actually talking about.” -Teacher at New America School Denver Campus We spent last week equipping an entire high school in Denver to recognize and respond…
Survivor Gallery
Our priority is to prevent child exploitation and trafficking from ever happening, but there is an immediate need that must also be met. That’s where the Survivor Fund comes in. It addresses the gaps in the US system… very few survivors are being placed in safehomes in the US. Instead, children are typically placed in foster…
Mexico Raids
There were three rooms decorated in Disney motifs and next to each bed was a stash of condoms, lubricant, and lingerie. A call to the new anti-trafficking hotline in Chiapas had given authorities a lead on three possible child trafficking victims. It was reported that the girls were being forced to work as waitresses in…
Newsweek Features iEmpathize
Here’s the deal… I have always been surrounded by powerful women: my wife, daughters, mom and sis; resilient women/girls who experience diminishment and survive victimization; and relentless women advocates and leaders. iEmpathize was privileged to participate in Newsweek’s Women in the World Summit which honored some of the world’s most amazing women and leaders. The summit…
UofA Empathy Week
University of Arizona students participate in our anti-trafficking demonstrations. The UofA Union Gallery brought iEmpathize in to educate and engage their student body in the fight against child trafficking and sexual exploitation. Empathy Week is our outreach to universities. Events include our mixed media exhibit, an academic forum, a mattress vigil, and flash mob. The…
Engaging 80,000 Truckers
We just returned from Louisville KY where we attended the world’s largest truck show with over 80,000 in attendance. Thousands of US minors are victims of trafficking each year. The FBI has rescued over 1,500 kids through their Innocence Lost initiatives in the last few years alone. They believe they are just scratching the surface. Unfortunately,…
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Empower Teens at Risk
EMPOWER YOUTH: Empowering youth and equipping educators to recognize and respond to teen trafficking. Thousands of US minors are victims of trafficking each year. The FBI has rescued over 1,500 kids through their Innocence Lost initiatives in the last few years. They believe they are just scratching the surface. Unfortunately, these numbers are from just…
Experience: Immersive
The Empathy Experience is a large room installation of the mixed media Empathy Exhibit adding live art, music performances, talks, and idea exchanges. This event is immersive and interactive. Films, photography, and artifacts tell the specific stories from the exact locations of the kids we serve. The compelling mixed media narrative has child protection, intervention,…
Experience: The Exhibit
Exhibit: film, photos, artifacts An intimate installation of our films, photography, and artifacts telling the specific stories from the exact locations of the kids we serve. The compelling mixed media narrative has child protection, intervention, and restoration themes. The exhibit has been installed at museums, galleries, universities, conferences, festivals, government venues, and more. To book…
US Artifacts
Historically media has been used to articulate the voice of justice movements and inspire involvement. During the transatlantic slave trade, actual slave artifacts and media of the day were key in awakening people to abolition. Since we can’t always bring you to the kids, we bring the kids to you. We use a mix of film, photography,…
Engage Mexico Immersion
iE Expeditions are always about the kids. Participants are educated about the issues iEmpathize and our partners are addressing; meet survivors, local practitioners, and national influencers; work directly with at-risk kids. There are many ways that we will work in their behalf ranging from encouraging and serving the children and staff from our partnerships to advocating…
Mexico Media Premier
Mexico’s Commission to End Human Trafficking and the Attorney General hosted iEmpathize for the launch of media tools aimed at educating and engaging government and the public. The event was help at Congressional Hall with key leaders and press in attendance. Historically, media of the day has been a voice of movements fighting injustice and…
Experience Scooter Hero
The Scooter Hero event is a mass awareness and fundraising event inspired by Yeng who is featured in the film. He rides a scooter to villages to protect kids from traffickers, we ride on behalf of the kids he protects. If you are interested in hosting the Scooter Hero Ride and Walk in your city…
Engage Truckers
Trucker Hero “They made us go from truck to truck… and then I had to have sex with another guy that I didn’t even know.” Sheri, age 15. Most of us drive down the road and pass by houses, buildings, alleys and rest areas, but all we ever see is the wood, brick, steel, and pavement….
Explore The Issue
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the…
Explore Russia
ABOUT OUR WORK 17,000 Russian teens age out of orphanages each year and are routed to the nearest big city. Half the girls will be sexually exploited shortly after leaving their orphanage. Some are targeted by traffickers even while at their orphanage but most during their vulnerable transition to life in the city. Others are…
Explore SE Asia
ABOUT OUR WORK SE Asia has been dealing with serious child exploitation issues for years. We are eyewitnesses to the systems of victimization after going undercover in brothels and visiting the villages and neighborhoods experiencing the problems. In one case near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a mother attempted to sell our team a $5 sex act…
Explore the US
ABOUT OUR WORK Thousands of US minors are victims of trafficking each year. The FBI has rescued over 1,500 kids through their Innocence Lost initiatives in the past couple of years alone. They believe they are just scratching the surface. Unfortunately, those numbers are solid indicators that child trafficking and sexual exploitation is an enormous…
Explore Mexico
ABOUT OUR WORK Mexico’s organized crime problem has aggressively expanded into child trafficking. The government is unsure of how many children in the country are bought and sold for sex daily by the cartel and pimps. In Mexico City alone, it is believed that 10,000 girls are victims of sexual exploitation. UNICEF believes that 240,000 abandoned children…