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SUMMARY:Survivor Leadership Series: A Survivor's Guide to Money & Developing Financial Wellness
DESCRIPTION:Trafficking survivors often face significant financial challenges. Please join us for a candid discussion with two remarkable leaders in the anti-trafficking movement who have done significant work on survivors’ financial well-being. Ashante Taylorcox\, Founder and Executive Director of You Are More Than\, Inc.\, and Megan Lundstrom\, Co-Founder and Director of Research at The Avery Center\, will lead a discussion on tools to make financial wellness more accessible to all trafficking survivors. The speakers will highlight the role of institutional racism and its impact on survivors who are Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color (BIPOC). \nThis session of the Survivor Leadership Series will feature Megan Lundstrom’s important new book\, “A Survivor’s Guide to Money.” The Guide includes lessons for trafficking survivors on developing financial wellness while recovering from trauma associated with money. \nPlease join us to learn practical lessons from these two thoughtful leaders in the movement. \n Webinar Registration\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTERS \nMegan Lundstrom \nMegan Lundstrom is the co-founder and director of The Avery Center for Research & Services (FKA “Free Our Girls”)\, an organization dedicated to ending commercial sexual exploitation through evidence-based practices and economic empowerment. With a combination of lived and professional experience\, Lundstrom specializes in domestic pimp-controlled sex trafficking and developed a cultic theory framework for this form of exploitation to better understand prevention\, intervention\, and exiting. Lundstrom is an internationally published researcher and national public speaker on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation. Lundstrom holds a B.S. in Finance and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Northern Colorado. \nAshante Taylorcox \nAshante Taylorcox is a Queer\, Licensed Counselor in the state of New Jersey\, an Echoing Green Fellow\, and the Founder and Executive Director of You Are More Than\, Inc. (YAMT). YAMT is a survivor-led\, survivor-run non-profit organization in the state of New Jersey aimed at supporting marginalized survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking by empowering them within mental health\, education and financial sectors of aftercare support.  \nTaylorcox has an extensive history of serving the survivor community as not only an advocate in the field but also as a survivor leader both through lived and professional experience. Over the last eight years\, Taylorcox has worked to create safer environments within the survivor community by improving support services for adult survivors\, particularly within mental health settings. Through community collaboration\, Taylorcox has invested in the survivor community through direct service work\, fundraising initiatives\, curricula development\, and training providers that provide direct services and clinical-specific support.
URL:https://surviveandthriveadvocacy.org/events/survivor-leadership-series-a-survivors-guide-to-money-developing-financial-wellness/
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