Sameer Jain
When he lived in India, Sameer Jain admired America, and he still does now that he lives in Tallahassee. But his admiration for the country was one of the lures his former trafficker used to enslave him.
Now Jain serves on the National Human Trafficking Advisory Council and works with Tallahassee’s Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center, hoping to free others. To mark National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Jain shared his story with WFSU.
“I was on the other side of the world like a normal human being who could not comprehend that I can be trafficked,” he says. “I’m a white-collar guy. I can understand and speak English. I know the language. I am educated, I’m a graduate, so that kind of thing never strike me.”
