Slavery is alive and well in the U.S. and abroad according to Liza Taylor ’03, who will present “Fighting Modern-Day Slavery: A Frontline Perspective on Combating Human Trafficking” Wednesday, May 23 at 12:50 p.m. in Social Sciences 104.
The talk is part of Pizza & Politics and is free and open to the public.
Taylor is a legal and policy fellow for Polaris Project, an anti-human trafficking non-profit based in Washington, D.C., and a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme Gender Team based at the U.N.
The Polaris Project was founded in 2002 to address the vital need for a grassroots, community-based and comprehensive approach to combat human trafficking in the United States and abroad.
Since its founding, Polaris Project has pioneered many innovative approaches in the anti-trafficking movement including direct outreach and victim identification methodologies, leadership development, providing direct services and shelter to victims and combining grassroots activism with policy advocacy. Polaris Project has grown rapidly over the last six years to include more than 15 full-time staff in four national and international offices and a Grassroots Network of over 6,000 volunteers and supporters.
Taylor received her Bachelor’s in Philosophy and Political Science from Union College and spent two years at the London School of Economics and Political Science pursuing her Master’s in Political Theory and a second Master’s in Gender. She has recently been accepted into the doctoral program in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Taylor will begin studying feminist political theory at UCLA beginning this fall and plans to pursue a career in academia.
Funded through an Intellectual Enrichment Grant, Pizza & Politics is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.