Human Trafficking - Developing Awareness and Exploring our Role

Workshop Description

This workshop is intended for directors, and we welcome others who have cleared participation with their director. We've heard requests made for professional development on the subject of human trafficking. For this reason, NYS-MEP Technical Assistance and Support Center (TASC) has selected Renán Salgado, Human Trafficking Director at the Worker Justice Center of New York for this presentation. This workshop will be three hours and will provide information about human trafficking awareness, laws, economy, resources, identification and response, as well as, plenty of time for Q & A.

Read more about Renán Salgado

Renán Salgado was born in Ecuador and migrated to the United States in 1984. He is the Human Trafficking Director at the Worker Justice Center, formerly known as Farmworker Legal Services, and has been investigating cases of migrant farmworker exploitation since January of 2000. Renán has been dedicating his career to the fight against human trafficking in agriculture, and recently has expanded his investigations to other industries, mostly focusing on labor trafficking. He is responsible for the creation of multiple Human Trafficking Taskforces throughout NY. Since 2001, Renán has been working in tandem with agents from the FBI, Homeland Security, State Police, and local law enforcement units throughout the state of NY. Renán has also been training local, state, and federal  Law Enforcement agents since 2007, and has been a keynote speaker and panelist at various National and International Human Trafficking conferences. Most recently, Renán has trained the Los Angeles Human Trafficking Task Force, the Mexican Government's Attorney General's Office, Mexican INTERPOL agents, prosecutors and Judges from Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras, outreach workers and organizers from the United Farm Workers Union in California, as well as Dept. of Justice’s OVC grantees in how to proactively investigate cases of labor trafficking. Renán was a co-chair of the Freedom Network's Training Institute, a member of the Freedom Network's Steering Committee, and a board member of John Brown Lives!