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Here is a look at what is coming up tonight on cspan. First a discussion about efforts to combat Human Trafficking and ys to help victims. Then senator merkley talks aut climate change, following one of the hottest months on record. And later, President Bidens economic agenda and Public Opinion on his efforts. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government funded by these Television Companies and more including cox. This syndrome is extremely rare. Hi. Prince dont have to be. This is joe. When you are connected, you are not alone. Cox support cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Coming up, the u. S. Chamber of commerce hosting a discussion on implement measures to combat Human Trafficking. Human rights advocates discuss support for victims and how to spot and the role of business and government in stopping it. [indiscernible voices] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [indiscernible voices] good morning, everybody. Lets take our seats and get started. I am stephan the cochair of the human rights and Business Practices group, and chair of the u. S. Chamber of Commerce Task force to eradicate Human Trafficking. I would like to welcome you all to todays event, the role of Public Private partnerships to combat Human Trafficking. When i mentioned the term Human Trafficking, what am i talking about . The keywords are that trafficking involves the elements of force, fraud, coercion, forced later, or commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is a global problem affecting millions of people each year who are illegally lured into forced labor and sexual expectation through force, fraud, or coercion. The u. S. To permit of Homeland Security says it is only second to Drug Trafficking is the most profitable form of transnational crime generating billions of dollars a year in illicit profits, and all victims of trafficking share one essential experience, the loss of freedom. We know that Human Trafficking is a sensitive topic that dwells on the worst behaviors of mankind. In an interconnected world Human Trafficking is a global problem that touches Many Industries and business relationships. The private sector is empowered to lead the fight against this heinous problem based on Financial Resources and civic leadership. Businesses cannot do this work alone. They need to partner with governments and nongovernmental organizations. Employers are leading efforts to raise education and awareness to fight Human Trafficking in conjunction with governments and nongovernmental organizations. That is why the u. S. Chamber of commerce established a task force to eradicate Human Trafficking a number of years ago. This task force is an Advisory Group consisting of members who work with the federal government and the private sector to develop Commonsense Solutions and speak with one voice. The chamber[tas force develops toolkits t chambers taskforces about toolkits and meets with members to advocate and also offers companies a platform for educating the public about their initiatives to support trafficking victims. As we hear today from experts, i would be remiss to mentioned that around the globe the Business Community is facing a plethora of laws that intent to mandate supplychain reporting requirements, complying with a multitude of these types of laws are impractical, as there may be a need for global standard, and companies are acting voluntarily to be part of that solution. The days form is part of the chambers education and Awareness Campaign to highlight the accomplishments of the business sector. This event is held in advance but honoring the spirit of the world day against trafficking of persons which falls every year on july 30. Even trafficking is too big of a societal problem for one industry dissolve on its own, therefore the keyword is partnership. The u. S. State department estimates that 27 point 6 Million People worldwide are victims of Human Trafficking. To have an effective strategy, the u. S. Chamber of commerce recognizes the Important Role that each of these entities plays in preventing this evil scourge. That is why we are here today to solve this problem once and for all, to have an effective strategy, the u. S. Chamber recognizes the Important Role that each of these entities play in this work. Human trafficking is a complex problem and requires complex solutions at all stages. A holistic approach is necessary when addressing Human Trafficking. We are here today to make in part to make bold change in how we Work Together across the public and private sectors to stop traffickers as a coordinated effort is needed for a response of this magnitude. Sharing best practices in carrying these best practices into the Global Community inspires others and serves as a basis for broader collaboration among Intergovernmental Organization coordination efforts. We know from expense that was educational institutions Law Enforcement, business, governments and nongovernmental organizations collectively join forces, there is an opportunity to solve this problem with upstream and downstream solutions. Upstream measures focus on prevention by aiming to prevent trafficking before it occurs and by addressing underlying risks, while downstream interventions emphasize the importance of remedying the harm, if it does occur, when it does occur. When combined with the downstream interventions like victim Identification Service Provisions Health care, Behavioral Health treatment in criminal investigations and the like of these efforts combined to increase the number of individuals who are expensing trafficking. In a moment i will call to the stage Glenn Spencer the Senior Vice President of the Employment Policy division would discuss the publication of the task force that it has produced and make an announcement about two publications being released today. Before i do that, i would like to acknowledge our sponsors, counterforce labor technologies, the American Hotel and lodging association with the American Hotel and lodging Association Foundation, and the National Coalition for the prevention of Human Trafficking and sex trafficking. Thank you very much for your support. Glenn . [applause] glenn thank you, stephan, for those opening remarks, and thank all of you for coming down to the chamber on a hot monday morning. In this postcovid era, it is unusual to see so many people in the building, mondaybut thanks for being her monday, but thanks for being here. Amongst my many responsibilities , i have oversight of this task force. Michael bell it who will come up to the stage in a moment manages that for us so we are grateful for his work. As you heard from stephan, the task force is an Advisory Group and members who work with the federal government and private sector to develop Common Sense Solutions and to speak with one voice. The objectives of this task force are threefold. One, increase prevention. We want to raise awareness. We want to enable empowerment. Part of doing all three of those is the advocacy work we do around this issue with congress. Today i want to highlight a couple of recent publications in all our publications are available on a website. You each have a bag in a chair that has more publications in their so please take a look at those. First i want to announce the date is the update to the u. S. Chamber publication antiHuman Trafficking laws which we published last summer. This is essentially a 101 on the various laws, treaties, and conventions out there that deal with Human Trafficking. This particular update discusses canadas s 211 which includes modern slavery reporting requirements, the child labor import ban in the eu proposal regarding forced labor, and domestic laws signed by President Biden in the 117 congress. Although she will find in that update. The next publication is the counterforce labors Technology Solutions publication. They are our partner in todays event and are a great partner overall and there is a new publication known as counter journal volume seven issue to which you will find in your bag. And that publication but you will find is descriptions of the mission of our task force here and an overview of dhss campaign in a number of Interesting Articles including i would know two articles about the work of the first ladies who will be joining us today. Again, we are very grateful for their participation in todays events. Later this morning you will hear a prerecorded announcement about an exciting new toolkit the u. S. Chamber is coproducing with a 21 and the National Beer wholesalers association. This document will provide additional education on forced labor indicators in the business environment. That toolkit will be released just a bit later this summer, or maybe early fall. Uh, also you will hear about an upcoming joint publication from Ashley Chapman of the alliance for freedom restoration and justice. That joint publication from both organizations will highlight the work of business in helping to end Human Trafficking in the Atlanta Metro region. Now, as they say come on with the show, so i want to call up to the stage michael bell it who runs the task force for us. I want to thank our sponsors for being here today and working with us on this event, the counterforce labor technologies of the American Hotel lobbying association and the American Hotel lobbying Association Foundation in the National Coalition for the prevention of human sex trafficking. So again, thank you to all her sponsors for working with us on this event. With that, michael, come on up and i will let you run the show from here. Michael glenn, stephan, thank you for your marks and ongoing support of the activities and efforts of the task force. Good morning for those on the livestream. I am michael bell it, director of research here at the u. S. Chamber. As part of my core responsibility site manage the daytoday operations of the task force. Before i go into a brief overview of todays agenda i want to highlight a few key findings from our report. Human trafficking is an underreported crime for various reasons. Some reasons are they are unaware they are being trafficked but they dont think of themselves as being traffic. They are afraid to talk about enforcement due to the control the trafficker has over them or hesitant to accept help from the authorities because they fear they will get into criminal trouble, so as we discussed the prepayments of trafficking which is a term sort of used in this field, all of us in this room and watching on my note that interventions are needed to prevent those that are at risk of being trapped again to help those who have not been traffic. What you will hear is a critical first step to address this problem. We need to break free of this cycle and arrive at strategic innovative and Effective Solutions to complex problems but we also have to learn here to engage in constructive discourse and go beyond the problem at hand and consider the system that allowed this problem to exist before we can develop a solution that will truly address the source and during the event we will try to address the following two questions. How do we create Affordable Housing solutions and trauma informed work and permits to break the cycle of victimization, and also how do we equip business to protect itself against being used by traffickers. As you heard from stephan and glenn, a conference approach to trafficking is going to have to unite communities and organizations and businesses and legislators to produce pursue solutions that address the full solution and we have to think about this is a function like the spokes of the wheel and each spoke is a resource and information to operate effectively and its work helps to move the wheel towards his destination and when Law Enforcement is using the victimcentered approach we see higher rates of prosecution of traffickers and we see a continuum of care which support survivors exiting a trafficking situation and reintegrating into society and decrease revictimization rates and see more healing and as policymakers in the chamber especially effective as a longstanding employee of doing advocacy work as we passed legislation that creates sustainable solutions, we will be able to build the infrastructure to eradicate trafficking in the u. S. Problems are not also been the same level in which they are created in this alone cannot be the responsibility of one person or one organization or one policymaker. We all have to get together on this topic and we know that injustice on the scale requires a collective movement of people so that what we kind of give permission to tolerate we give permission to existent this is totally unacceptable in every way shape and form and we know that the Business Community and collaboration with government, ngos, nonprofits and our rising up to this challenge but we have even more work to do so you know i challenge everybody in this, to think about Effective Solutions. I was reminded you know recently that we really need to have more compassion for other people in this part of the know the chambers efforts but this is just overall good work and having compassion for other people and learning and caring about how they are different from each other and how we can relate to them so today you will hear from many representatives and i have a list and i dont think i will go through them. I think i have close to 30 speakers less time i checked them and so we have many people from both Law Enforcement, the first ladies who will be joining us from work, a democratic governor said this is a bipartisan issue. I am fortunate that when i reached out here he said we are integrated now and in the center for Human Trafficking and i thought great we will get the director over and so we got the director over so this is great. So no there is speaker bios. For the people online, there is at the righthand side of the screen and you know this program really cant be possible without our sponsors, both at breakfast and the launch overall in terms of the agenda so again i want to thank the counterforce labor technologies, American Hotel and lodging association and the foundation on the National Coalition for the prevention of human sex trafficking into Getting Started im going to call onto the stage the Vice President of awareness and prevention programs at the American Hotel lodging association and you will hear of another person at Survivor Alliance, so as they say, we will get this program started. So i will be the host. Thank you. [applause] good morning, everyone. It is nice to be with you here all this morning first thing. You have heard my organizations name four or five times already this morning, but by and with the hla foundation and excited to be here in sponsoring this event because between those we represent the combination of the private industry sector, the hotel and lodging industry, as well as our Charitable Giving arm that works in the nonprofit space and social impact. So i am excited to be here this morning, particularly with my colleagues here on the stage because in our industry we have had a longstanding commitment to Human Trafficking prevention and it has been a combination of training our industry employs, a commitment to train every singer one of our industry employees, as well as raising awareness within our industry and in the public and in the communities where we work and live. And now, survivor empowerment and survivor support. We will talk more about that in detail but i am excited to be here joint particular with abby, the director of human rights and social impact at Marriott International and alisha, a fellow Program Court nader at Survivor Alliance. Thank you for joining me. Secret, we are friends and colleagues and have been in the space a long time together. So, i would like to start off with you, talking about survivor engagement and empowerment. When we talk about empowerment specifically, that is one of our core goals, what do we mean in how does that come about through Survivor Alliance . Alisha we exist as a Global Network around the world and how is the Worlds Largest survivor engagement community, and so, we are survivorled, survivorinformed, and we equipped and empower survivors of Human Trafficking to become Leaders Within the antitrafficking sector, so that is our whole mission, so empowerment is really important to us and when we think about empowerment, it is really the work of reestablishing agency and control with those who have been affected by Human Trafficking, and one of the things that we recognize is that as survivors, when we survive longterm pervasive trauma, which is what Human Trafficking entails, we dont become things that are broken that need fixed, right . That is not who we are. Who we are are those people who have gifts, capabilities, and strengths now to give back, serve, and be integrated in this work. When we speak about Economic Empowerment, which is what we are talking about today, as a survivor myself, and as working with hundreds of survivors over the years, when we think about the trauma of trafficking, we get the healing of physical trauma. We get the emotional and mental trauma, but the economic trauma in the healing that it takes to be empowered economically, and really get to the point where we are living sustainable lives of financial freedom, it takes a really long time. Most of us are seven years to 10 years financially behind our peers, and that does not turn typically within a generation, so now we are looking at generational impact in this place, so that is why specifically empowerment and Economic Empowerment is really important. That is right. It is an evolution of the way we thought that empowerment as a private sector industry and frankly where we are directing our programs currently, but abby , talk about marriotts work. How does the idea that Economic Empowerment in the work you been doing for a long time in the space intersect . Abby absolutely. I think that when you open the panel you talked about the Hospitality Industrys longstanding commitment to talk about in combat human. I think we recognize how the industry is vulnerable to sex trafficking and operations in sex trafficking throughout the supply chain, and marriott is proud to take a leadership role in those efforts. In 2016, we first introduced Human Trafficking Awareness Training. It is mandatory for all onproperty associates at both manage and Franchise Properties and it became the first training that was not related to service that is required at that scale so that is a strong testament to our commitment on this issue. As of the end of q2, we are proud that we have trained more than 1. 1 million associates and really contributed to a Global Workforce that stands ready to recognize and respond to Human Trafficking. But i think we started to ask ourselves what more we could do, what other resources does marriott and the broader Hospitality Industry have that we can contribute . And we really thought about jobs and job training a lot. This is an area in particular we have long been interested in as part of our esg platform to empower opportunity and we wanted to create a specific curriculum for survivors interested in pursuing careers in the Hospitality Industry, so we partnered with the global fund to end modern slavery to codevelop as curricula and competed a pilot last year where we trained 64 survivors through four local Service Provider organizations in washington, d. C. , new york, charlotte, and dallas, many of those Program Participants are working at marriott, so we are thrilled to come up with this winwin solution that meets a marketbased need but also addresses some of the issues around Economic Empowerment that you highlighted. Thank you so much. I think it is obvious to us what a leadership role marriott has taken in the space and spearheaded a number of issues around this history of publicprivate partnerships that t others look to. When you echo what you said training, you that is what you donated for industry by free use for any employee that we support and that Training Program separate from the million associates you guys have trained is about to reach one million throughout the industry. Since 20 20 20, so tremendous scope of how many people this has impacted every day and looking at it from their workplace on the front lines of thank you for that. And i think that what we know is that our industry is one of opportunity. It is a fairly low barrier to enter industry that offers over 200 career pathways. It is not just a front desk opportunity. It is a variety of corporate positions and other things that can offer ways to financially progress and establish independence for a number of vulnerable populations including Human Trafficking survivors. And what we have been thinking about a lot is how do we broaden and create consistency in how we are supporting Human Trafficking survivors from that specific financial, economic stability lands. About a week ago, we announced that fund that aims to collect share the resources and distribute them to organizations on the front lines providing those programs, workforce development, emergency services, everything that will help a survivor on their path forward, particularly from this economic lens, and with your recent announcement that we are now over 3. 4 million in that fund, which is exciting and matched by the hla foundation so were hoping by 10 million by the end of the year, and our first awards in a few days to community organizations. We are looking forward to seeing what they do with this Financial Support but also in partnership with our members and industry more broadly. So we are really talking about the court intersection of the Nonprofit Sector and the private sector and the ways in which we can leverage with our expertise and our networks. What are some of the survivor lines programs that you intersect with, the private sector intersects with specifically . Alisha i really echo them saying around the world the business sector in the private sector are emphasizing partnerships to really do something about this, so we have an arm at Survivor Alliance that is called movement building, so we work with countries that are identified as hotspots and we partner with businesses in that country, you know, different sectors that kind of are known for areas of forced labor, ngos, government agencies, and of course survivors. And we create strategic plans with their countries. This year we are in thailand, brazil, and ethiopia. It is what we are doing around the world but in the United States, we launched our fellowship, which is that fellowship for survivors to gain accessible employment, so salary , health benefits, right, shocking . And they are on boarded as employees across a sector and agencies doing great work in Human Trafficking, that that is what we are doing here. The penbrooke fellowship is a collaboration with United Way Worldwide and we host some fellows in the private sector like marriott. Abbe we are so thrilled to not only be supporting them in this program but also be hosting a fellow, so when we are asking our hotels throughout the u. S. To hire survivors who have completed our training curriculum, we are also modeling that behavior at headquarters and really benefiting tremendously from the expertise of our fellow who has not only lived experience but extensive professional experience in the antitrafficking spaces well, so it is a real opportunity for us to enhance our programs as we learn from her experience and skills. Eliza that is an Innovative Program and one that we have not seen yet and the private sector. I would like to go into detail about the components because is not just about supporting survivors but the supervisor and those managing this individual. I feel like it is important for those of us in the room who are thinking about a program like this, what are those elements that make it successful or will make it successful . Alisha yeah, and it is really centered through this lens of survivorinformed practice. Again, everything we do is housed in that empowerment, equipping realm at Survivor Alliance that flips the script of how survivors have been engaged in the sector for a long time, right . So survivorinformed practices means meaningful survivor engagement but a Diverse Community of survivors, not what we have pigeonholed as the stereo typical survivor, but the First Community of survivors throughout all stages of a project, including development, implementation, evaluation or cross it off. In really what we want to and really what we want to see is that survivors are in decisionmaking positions. You know for a long time we have seen survivors tokenized and narrowed down to less share your narrative, your trauma narrative, right . And that is not with the penbrooke fellowship is about all. We really recognize that our expertise is so much more than just you know the years of trauma we experienced. Now, the other side of the traumainformed practices making sure our host organizations are healthy, thriving places of employment that not only survivors of Human Trafficking can thrive in, but humans in general, right . We have all survive something, right . No one gets out alive without trauma. It is just the reality of our world and so, we go in and we work with organizations and we assess what their survivorinformed practices are, what their hr policies are, and we do allies training. We work with the host supervisor to make sure that they are empowered with traumainformed supervision practices. That is the full circle of how do we do this penbrooke fellowship and a survivorinformed way. Eliza thank you. I agree. There are elements of this program that are applicable no matter what type of organization or company you are or what employees you have or how you intersect with the market. These are just some best practices to be involved in that happened to also really support longterm sustainability and career pathways. Eliza we see that mirrored in the private sector. People are recognizing especially postcovid recognizing Mental Health is real, trauma is real, and we want our employees to be healthy to promote wellbeing here, and so, we get to do that in a very practical way. Eliza i appreciate the level of support and insights that Survivor Alliance provides, that Technical Expertise to work through those components. And i think that represents the spectrum. We are talking about this distinction between survivor engagement and empowerment, and i think it would be helpful to revisit that because we use those terms especially those of us into space every day we use those terms sort of like they flow out of our mouths and for those who are either new to the space or thinking about how to evolve from one stage to another, can we talk about that spectrum and get more detailed about it . Some examples. Do you want to take this, survivorinformed, survivorled commit less diving on that spectrum. Abbe i can talk about a few examples in terms of how we achieve this and how we are going to move forward on the spectrum from not just sort of consulting a survivor on a completed program to check a box, but rather get that meaningful impact from survivors at all phases of project development and i think this is really important for an organization like marriott when you think about Something Like our Human Trafficking Awareness Training that all are required to take. The flipside of that, now that we are executing a lot of these survivorappointment programs, we know that a survivor will be on the receiving end of the training at some point, so they need to see themselves represented well in an authentic way that is relevant to their experience, so we see in that moment right there how critical that survivor input is, so in 2021, marriott launched an enhanced version of her Human Trafficking Awareness Training that really sought to address feedback from our associates who needed more context on the potential indicators of trafficking we teach and managers are needed more nuance on what to do and how they should report if those indicators are present, so we teamed up with polaris in several survivor consultants to reinvent this training and create something more dynamic that features scenarios of Human Trafficking situations that were reported to the national Human Trafficking hotline or our Global Security and safety team to give it that authentic context and allow associates to practice their decisionmaking skills in context, so as i mentioned, it was originally built with survivor consultants, but that was not enough for us. We had members review not only the storyboards but develop training and continue to give that feedback and represent those diverse perspectives in terms of the demographics and experiences of these survivor immunity. We also more recently recognized the need to supplement the training given how many states and local jurisdictions are passing laws that require annual training or classroomtype training for hotel employees. We wanted to make sure that we had materials that could be used over and over and make the experience a little more engaging, so we partnered with united way in the rising United Leadership Program to help survivors develop some supplemental training materials that could be put on a powerpoint or passed out as handouts, things like mythbusters and case studies that again, where entirely survivordevelop from conception to the final revisions, and most recently as was hinted at, marriott is so thrilled to join the foundation to make a contribution of 550,000 to the no room for trafficking Survivor Fund, again, to make sure we can lead the industry offering that support to survivors at all phases of recovery from the need for emergency housing upon exiting the trafficking situation, to some of these longterm stability and support programs like Economic Empowerment. Eliza thank you. I think those are all tangible and important examples. Even within the hotel and lodging industry with the foundation i have been trying to support that pitted within the industry, even just from a training perspective. I recall one of my first training events who i met someone who said great, i want to film a survivor for a Train Program i am like, lets discuss, because lets talk about what that should really look like when you want to have that perspective added in to make it more real to the learner , but that is not the same as just having them appear onscreen until there trauma narrative, so talking about the ways our industry through everything that we do involves like you have with your Training Program but also in terms of survivor empowerment specifically communitybased organizations doing this work. Abbe i think it can be scary at first but those of us in the private sector. I am fronted by colleagues who dont have a lot of experience. They are nervous right . They dont want to miss out or be insensitive, but a lot of the principles of the Hospitality Industry are so relevant to the concepts that she highlighted, right . We are in the business of creating a warm welcome for all. We are leaning into diversity and inclusion. We want to view travel as a catalyst for building cultural understanding, and all of that foundation is so relevant to the work that we do, being good allies, and making sure that we are trained. The roots are there, is just a matter of getting specialized expertise in translating those concepts into a different space. Eliza that is the definition of partnership, youre each bring to the table your expertise in making it tangible. I agree wholeheartedly. I have only been in the Hospitality Industry for about a year, and just seeing that level of service to others that is embodied in the work every single day and have our industry shows up on this issue as well. I think it is important we leverage that and think through the ways we can can you to expand and involve continue to expand and evolve and how we financially support those organizations doing this work, but part of the Survivor Fund was recognizing we are not here to do that as hla foundation. We are here to pull in those Financial Resources and give them to the people doing the work every single day and have that level of indepth expertise and interaction with Human Trafficking survivors in ways that are really tangible, actionable, and have longterm impact in that way. Um, so we see how much marriott takes concept and turns it into action. We never like to leave a panel without talking to the audience about tangible things that you can walk away with and do, do differently, or do something new. What are some of those takeaways you all would suggest for those in the room . Alisha yeah, so some of the things i would suggest is if you are doing this work or interested in doing this work that you engage in meaningful survival inclusion and practices around that, right . Reach out to us at Survivor Alliance. We have a ton of resources that can help your organization and that can help your business really engage lived experience experts in a meaningful weight that is mutually beneficial way that is mutually beneficial, like with marriott. It really does provide something, not mo, this poor survivor, it will help them out. It really is beneficial to have lived experience engage. I think the other thing that you can do is if you are a business, ngo, or government agency, that you want to just sure up your practices as an organization shore up your practices as an organization that you want to learn how to be an ally and how you engage in that relationship and better ways, meaning looking at your guarded hr policies. [laughter] which can be scary, but are your places of employment places where survivors and humans can really thrive and work . We spend so much time of our lives at our work. Lets do it in a way that promotes wellbeing, and then lastly, i will give a shameless plug for the penbrooke fellowship. If you want to and you are interested in partnering with United Way Worldwide and Survivor Alliance and what we are doing, we work across the country and in the u. K. We have two strands of our fellowship. Now is the time to reach out to say, i might want to host a fellow in our next go around. We will talk about what that looks like. Make room in your budget so that you can pay a salary and benefits, and now is really the time to start thinking about that as well. Eliza i will pause for a minute because i think going back to what you said, these can be intimidating conversations to have, and there is no shortage of toolkits, no shortage of content you can read up on this, but it does not replace these kinds of conversations with those of us who are trying and doing this every single day so that we can see where you are and talk through it. I was in that space too end here is how we handled that in our organization, company, sector, and those conversations are without journey because it is a journey, right . That is what we asked, for those who commit to the penbrooke fellowship, we are looking for a one year commitment. Alisha we work with the fellows to do leadership development, tech upskilling. We support the fellow in the first year and support the host agency, the business, the ngo, and they get to work at the traumainformed coach too, which is great. They are looking at their own policies and how we become better allies in the space so it is really this was your commitment hopefully to begin to ripple out and change the sector in this way. Eliza thank you. Abbe for marriott as a Global Leader in the space, i joke you are the catholic version of what people should aspire to in the private sector. Eliza it has been a journey for you as well, and what are the takeaways from the process you would share with those in the room from this panel today and some of your own expenses . Abbe sure. First and foremost, i would not be able to effectively serve on the panel if i did not put out our shameless plug too. So, as mentioned, both versions of the Human Trafficking Awareness Training that marriott developed are available throughout friends at those organizations, on their website, open source, free to take, so please feel free to take that training on this topic, and it will begin to teach you some of those foundations of engaging with the survivor in sort of a basic conversation, right . So the next two steps that i would offer first in the same thing that she said, consult with survivors. Find those opportunities where you can bring them into your program and project development. It might feel overwhelming, like, how in the world are we supposed to go out and find the survivor with the right skill set to be able to do that, so that is why we have fantastic partners with organizations like survivor network. It is simply an email to your good friends who can help. Im sure you can find the right person, so dont be afraid to ask for help, lean on your partners and get the expertise, because i promise that all your programs will be better off for it. And finally, you know, really back to the topic of this panel, higher survivors, for the Hospitality Industry in particular. As noted, this is one of the few industries that has a low barrier to industry. We dont require a lot of formal education or work experience, and we have so many opportunities to rise up through the ranks, so it is not just a job, but it is a true career pathway. To illustrate that, i talk about my manager who is a Senior Vice President at our corporate headquarters, but he started his career as a front desk associate when he was at the university of maryland, so wed love to share those opportunities for advancement, training, and skill building for survivors. With that in mind just dont think about survivors in those entrylevel roles, but think about hiring at all levels, whether it is the penbrooke fellowship at our headquarters, or you know, our future in Training Program which you were here a little bit more about the date that is supporting survivors in our career paths at our hotels. Whether it is that front desk associate or whether it is something more in line with their previous interests, like engineering or finance or i. T. Or operations. There are so many opportunities, and a strong Business Case for them, right . You get the opportunity of excellent, skilled, passionate and talented because we are all hiring that bright, and survivors get the benefit of that structured support and longterm Economic Empowerment eliza . Yeah empowerment. Eliza yeah, i would speak to that, privatesector colic specifically, it helps to unify within your sector, right . What we are doing with the hla is all of us together because we have people like marriott in the room who have been doing this for a long time and other smaller independent owners who are just getting into the space because of the state training mandates that are being put into place, so how do we Work Together to move along within the journey and pool our resources and understand and leverage each others experiences . Abbe i think that is an important theme in marriotts work because we have the benefit of our size and skill scale. We are grateful to be able to develop and lead the development of a lot of these resources but the Human Trafficking training that we shared with the entire Hospitality Industry, that is very much what we want to do with the rest of our work and promote our partners to use no other Hotel Companies and think about programs like the training curriculum that is no longer a marriott program. It is an industry program. And survivors can benefit from being hired at marriott, as much as they can at hilton, hyatt, or any of the other major brands we look forward to welcoming as a part of this program, and encouraging their journeys to higher survivors and their hotels as well. Eliza right. Those industrywide approaches help to create consistency but also maximize impact. We know that we can do more together and we are all really invested in creating Strong Communities and it takes all of us at the table to do that on both sides of the privatepublicsector. So, i am thankful for both of you today. It has been nice to have this conversation and i am grateful to walk along beside you each day as we evolve as an industry and we are happy to take questions now or after the break and thank you again for your time first thing this morning. [applause] [indiscernible voices] good afternoon. My name is molly, the u. S. Director of engagement for a 21, proud to partner with the u. S. Chamber of commerce, hla, and others on an Innovative Campaign to identify labor trafficking which may be occurring at the workplace. As labor trafficking in the United States is a hidden crime, collaborative campaigns like these are important to educate the workers in the public about this form of Human Trafficking. We are so thrilled to launch this new campaign that emphasizes the importance of knowing what labor trafficking can look like. This Outreach Campaign will highlight indicators of labor trafficking that employees may see while on the job by showcasing labor trafficking from a workers point of view. This partnership aims to educate individuals working on the job regarding signs to look out for such as malnourishment, evidence of physical or sexual abuse, poor living standards, or many other possible indicators. This campaign provides the appropriate hotline numbers to call if you see these activities taking place. This partnership will specifically showcase how drivers of the beverage distribution trucks could see labor trafficking during their day. We will have indicator sheets, images, online conversations and more to provide resources to these employees to become aware of what labor trafficking can look like it is cross sector partnerships between business, government, and nonprofits that is the key to eliminating Human Trafficking, and specifically labor trafficking. We at a 21 look forward to punching this campaign with these incredible partners and sharing more resources in the future so that we can all in labor trafficking together. And now, a message from one of our partners. Thank you. My name is erin, the Vice President of human occasions for the National Beer wholesalers association. In 2020, we launch the distributors because Human Trafficking and his, a program that aims to educate and empower more than 140,000 beer distribution employees in the u. S. To recognize and Safety Report signs of Human Trafficking. Beer distribution employees are uniquely positioned to help fight this crime given their level of access to locations unseen by the public including storerooms and back entrances of the 600 thousand licensed Retail Locations across the country that they regularly visit. Since the launch of distribute is against Human Trafficking, more than 30,000 employs across all 50 states and washington, d. C. Have been trained. We are now proud to be taking this next up partnering with the u. S. Chamber of commerce, a 21, and high market stripping on a new campaign focused on labor trafficking. This initiative will further empower distribution employees as well as the public at large to know the signs of Human Trafficking and take action to help put a stop to this terrible crime. Beer and beverage distributors are proud of our work to help be a part of the solution. This new campaign is an important part of the fight against labor trafficking