Minneapolis, MN — During my fellowship, I will advance solutions to the exploitation and disempowerment of African American females caused by endemic sex trading and trafficking in communities of generational poverty. While attention is growing regarding the issue of formalized networks of sex trafficking, exponentially less attention is paid to African American females who practice survival sex, sex trading and forced prostitution. I intend to work primarily with African American, sexually-exploited girls and women in North Minneapolis to build a grassroots movement to prevent and intervene in sex trading.
