Schedule

7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Networking breakfast for invitees
8:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. Welcome remarks  

  • Paul Schiff Berman
    Dean, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
  • Chief Justice Ruth V. McGregor
    Arizona Supreme Court (ret.)
  • Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
    U.S. Supreme Court (ret.)
9 a.m. – 9:30 am Morning Keynote – Why Trafficking Matters
Roxana Bacon
Former Chief Counsel
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesIntroducion: 
Lucia Fakonas Howard
President, O’Connor House
9:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Panel I – Overview of trafficking

  • Dennis Burke, U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona
  • Cindy Dyer, Vice President, Human Rights, Vital Voices Global Partnership
  • Jack McDevitt, Director, Institute on Race and Justice, Northeastern University
  • Laura Rundlet, Coordinator, Senior Policy Operating Group, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State

Moderated by Daniel Rothenberg,
                          Executive Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs
                          Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
                          Arizona State University
10:40 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. – Noon Panel II – Trafficking prosecution at different levels of governance and jurisdiction

  • Josh Parecki, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona
  • Chris Bray, Sergeant, Vice Enforcement Unit Drug Enforcement Bureau, Phoenix Police Department
  • Susan M. Breall, Judge, San Francisco Superior Court
  • Li-Ling Ker, Senior Prosecutor, Taiwan High Prosecutors office

Moderated by Laura Dickinson
                          Faculty Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs
                          Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
                          Arizona State University
Noon – 1:10 p.m. Afternoon Keynote: A Federal Perspective on Combating Human TraffickingAlice Chamberlayne Hill
Senior Counselor to Janet Napolitano, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland SecurityIntroduction:
Marilyn Seymann, CEO, Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation
1:10 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Panel III – Trafficking prevention and protection at different levels of governance and jurisdiction

  • Meghan Rhoad, Researcher, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
  • Susan B. Carbon, Director, Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Linda Smith, President and Founder, Shared Hope International
  • Karen McLaughlin, former Director, Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance

Moderated by Sarah Buel
                          Faculty Director, Diane Halle Center for Family Justice
                          Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
                          Arizona State University 
2:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Panel IV – Successful programs

  • Katie Resendiz, Human Trafficking Training Coordinator, International Rescue Committee      
  • Bridgette Carr, Public Interest/Public Service Faculty Fellow, Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Law School
  • Sheila Lynn M. Catacutan-Besario, Assistant Director, Jovito Salonga Law and Development Center, College of Law, Silliman University, Negros Oriental, Philippines
  • Kathleen C. Kim, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School

Moderated by William Simmons 
                           Associate Professor, Social & Behavioral Sciences
                           Arizona State University
3:30 p.m. – 3:40 p.m. Coffee break
3:40 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Panel V – What can be done to confront trafficking in a more coordinated fashion?

  • Dra. Susana Medina de Rizzo, Judge, Argentina
  • Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
  • Maria Sanchez-Gagne, Assistant Attorney General, New Mexico
  • Mary Ellison, Director of Policy, The Polaris Project
4:50 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. Concluding remarks

  • Chief Justice Ruth V. McGregor
    Arizona Supreme Court (ret.)

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