• Partnered with Shed Light District to create the Hope Backpack Drive for 1st Responders identifying & recovering victims of human trafficking (2014-Present)

• Hosted by the City of Orlando Commissioner Tony Ortiz along with Mayor Buddy Dyer was the state of human trafficking in Greater Orlando town hall where United (Florida) Abolitionists presented the problem, solutions and accomplishments and the stats including that the National Human Trafficking Hotline in D.C. reporting that the Greater Orlando (Orange County) had the 3rd highest calls per capita in the United States. This event was sponsored by the Florida Restaurants and Lodging Association (2017)

• Advocated along with Lui Damiani, Victim Service Center to the Orange County Government to fund a first of its kind adult female human trafficking short-term 24-hour residential program in the state of Florida (2018)
• Co-wrote intake tools for Project Imagine HT Rapid Rehousing Program for the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida (2023)

• Collaborator with the Samaritan Women, formerly Institute for Shelter Care & now the Institute for Survivor Care (2007-Present)

• Recognized and Referral base for the National Human Trafficking Hotline Polaris Project (2007-Present)

• Collaborator with the Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law & Engage Together (2010-Present)

• Co-founded MIT’s Task Force on Computational Law for Combating Modern Slavery (2019)

• Appointed to FIFA World Cup Human Rights Committee via Greater Orlando Sports Commission (2021)

• Collaborator with the National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance (2022-2024)

• Collaborator with Freedom Shield and now Carrie Lopez Consulting (2023-Present)

• Collaborator with Safe House Project (2023-Present)

• Recognized and Referral base for the Florida Human Trafficking Hotline (2024-Present)
• Florida Liaison for Shared Hope International’s JUST Conference (2025)

• 2024 Contributor to the University of South Florida’s TIP Lab’s State Report on Human Trafficking.

• The Impact of Covid-19 on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking MIT (2020)

• Advocated for Florida HB 851 in which requires specified continuing education for the Hotel and lodging industry and requires the Department of Law Enforcement to establish continued employment training component relating to human trafficking. United (Florida) Abolitionists was subcontracted by Pasco First to create the training (2019)

• Curriculum co-developer for UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management; trained 8,000+ industry professionals (2019-Present)

• Author and contributor to Valencia College & UCF’s textbook Human Trafficking: A Systemwide Public Safety and Community Approach (2017, 2023 editions)
• Supported the launch of the Valencia College Tuition Waiver Program for Survivors (2014)

• Latisha’s House Freedom Award (2025)

• Liberty Bell Award, Orange County Bar Association (2015, 2024)

• Frederick Douglass Award, Polaris Star Awards (2023)

• Orlando Magic Diversity Game Changer (2021)

• Florida Community Advocate of the Year, Florida Attorney General (2020)

• Recognized by former State Attorney Jeff Ashton for his efforts and collaboration in assisting the Ninth Judicial Circuit including the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation with creating the specialized human trafficking victim services program (2016)
• Finalist, Orlando Sentinel’s Central Floridian of the Year (2014)

• Rotary District 6980 – First Anti-Human Trafficking Chair (2024–Present)

• Graduate of the 2023 Capacity Building Seminar for Orange County nonprofit organizations hosted by The Center for Public and Nonprofit management at UCF and funded by the Orange County Commission for Children (OCCC). 

• Member, Flagler Tiger Bay Club (2022)

• University of South Florida TIP Lab – Development Team & Statewide Repository Advisor (2021-Present)

• UCF Center for the Study of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – Founding Member & Consultant (2015-Present)

• 1st Graduating Class of the ‘Rally’: The Social Enterprise Accelerator at Rollins College (2017)
• Graduate, FBI Citizens Academy (2014)

Multiple certifications in human trafficking victim services, trauma-informed care, law enforcement collaboration, and nonprofit management.