Held Friday, October 10, 2003

Lee Lakeman is a collective member of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. She opened one of the first transition houses in Canada. Lee was an organizer of the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres/ Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies Conference "Women's Resistance - From Victimization to Criminalization in October 2001.

Kukdookaa(Terri Brown) is the President of the Native Women's Association of Canada. She was born into the Tahltan Nation and attended residential schools in Whitehorse from the age of 10. Her political activism spans 3 decades and includes work with the Aboriginal Women's Council, Indian Homemakers Association of BC, Vancouver Status of Women and Helping Spirit Lodge Society. Terri was elected the first Aboriginal President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women

Dr. Janice G. Raymond is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and Medical Ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is also Adjunct Professor of International Health in the School of Public Health at Boston University. She is also Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. She is the author of many books and articles, including Women as Wombs: Reproductive Freedom and the Battle Over Women's Bodies. Her current research focuses on sex trafficking in the United States and the global patterns and consequences of sexual exploitation.

Lorina Serafico is originally from the Philippines. She was a domestic worker in Greece for 4 years before coming to Canada in 1990 also a domestic worker. She entered Canada under the old federal foreign domestic workers program. After domestic work Lorina worked in retail. She is the volunteer spokesperson for the Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights.

Cherry Kingsley is the Special Advisor to the International Centre to Combat Exploitation of Children. She co-planned and co-chaired "Out From the Shadows", an international summit on sexually exploited youth. In 2000, Cherry was recognized for her work with the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons' Case. In 2001 She was the NGO spokesperson at the 2nd World Congress Against Commercial Exploitation of Children in Japan. She is an aboriginal woman who spent 8 years in the sex trade.