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EMPOWERING YOUTH: GRADUATE FELLOW STEPHANIE TAMAYO GIVES INSIGHTS TO SENIORS OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL

By April 19, 2024Uncategorized

Ms. Stephanie Tamayo, Graduate Fellow of the John J. Brunetti Human Trafficking Academy and Vice President of the Student Bar Association at St. Thomas University College of Law, was interviewed by Ms. Niksen Motlow-Vivero, a senior at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale, as part of students’ Social Justice Project. Students had chosen to shed light on human-trafficking and produce a video, because as the interviewer stated it is something not often talked about among high school students, but it is one of the largest issues we struggle with locally and globally. Dr. Hugh Huck had advised students to reach out to the John J. Brunetti Human Trafficking Academy and Professor Roza Pati in order to assist with this project. One of the avenues that the Academy pursues in its mission is to reach out to high schools and educate youth, in order to have them understand the issue and reduce their vulnerability to human trafficking. Ms. Tamayo discussed forms of human trafficking, industries where trafficking is more prevalent, the root causes and the consequences of human trafficking, cultural practices that are prejudicial to women and children, as well issues of prevention.