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Human Trafficking: Prevent and Protect Event

Human Trafficking: Prevent and Protect event
The Office of Senator Catherine Blakespear
Human Trafficking: Prevent and Protect event
Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 6 PM
University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
Free

Join Senator Catherine S. Blakespear and a panel of experts to learn more about human trafficking in the San Diego region, how to prevent it through education, legislation and enforcement, and how to protect potential recruits and survivors.

Seating is limited so RSVP today!

Any questions can be directed towards diana.kutlow@sen.ca.gov

Registration and tabling: 6 p.m.

Program: 6:30 – 8 p.m.

Panelists include:

• Geanie Franco - California Department of Justice Human Trafficking Program Manager

• Summer Stephan – San Diego County District Attorney

• Marjorie Saylor - One Safe Place Director of Human Trafficking Services and Awareness

• Lianne Urada, Ph.D. - SDSU School of Social Work Associate Professor whose research focuses on trafficking on college campuses.

• Senator Blakespear (D38) will moderate.

Program Partners:

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition

Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies

Office of the San Diego County District Attorney

Soroptimist International

USD Women’s Legal Clinic

Event Supported By

The Office of Senator Catherine Blakespear
760-438-2005
diana.kutlow@sen.ca.gov

University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

5555 Marian Way
University of San Diego
San Diego, California 92110
619-260-7509
ipj@sandiego.edu

Through education, research and peacemaking activities, the Institute offers programs that advance scholarship and practice in conflict resolution and human rights. The Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego draws upon Catholic social teaching that sees peace as inseparable from justice and acts to prevent and resolve conflicts that threaten local, national and international peace. History: The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego was founded in 2000 with a generous gift from San Diego philanthropist Joan B. Kroc, who stipulated that the Institute not only "talk about peace, but make peace." Beginning with a Dedicatory Conference in 2001, which was attended by former Presidents Jimmy Carter of the United States and Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, along with many other peace-builders and representatives from four conflict-affected states, the IPJ has worked to bring together the powerful and the marginalized to build strong peacebuilding coalitions.

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