Civitas On-the-Go Human Trafficking with Carmen Guynn

Next week, Civitas On-the-Go will be going out and visiting numerous classrooms in the STL area to talk to students about human trafficking. We will be joined by previous guest speaker, Carmen Guynn. The focus of the presentation will be learning about human trafficking as a local issue including the warning signs and what students can do to help. The schools we will be visiting include Clayton High School, Collegiate School of Medicine & Bioscience, Pattonville High School, McKinley Classical Leadership Academy, SLUH, Crossroads College Prep, Parkway West High School, McCluer North, and Parkway Central.

Carmen R. Guynn is a native of St. Louis and was been a volunteer member of the Coalition Against Trafficking and Exploitation – CATE for eight years.  During this time, she participated in many community outreach events, and training awareness throughout the city of St. Louis.  After 14 years in the field of civil engineering, Ms. Guynn walked away and began the work of full time advocacy against human trafficking.  Now heading CATE, she works with community members, service providers and Missouri attorney General to build resources, best practices, and law implementation to fight this crime.  Her goal is to always be the voice for the voiceless.

CATE is a collaborative effort of 60 plus agencies and individuals who have built a community movement to respond to human trafficking through public advocacy, training, and outreach strategies.  CATE is a program under the Crime Victim Advocacy Center.
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This is a part of our free On-the-Go program, in which Civitas brings lessons and guest speakers to classrooms.