6:00 PM
List 120, 64 College StreetKatherine Chon, `02
Co-founder and President Emerita, Polaris Project Katherine Chon, '02, has spent the last fourteen years identifying and implementing community-driven solutions to combat modern forms of slavery, sparked by a local human trafficking case in Providence, Rhode Island. Katherine partnered with Derek Ellerman, '02, during their senior year at Brown University to co-found Polaris, a leading non-profit organization in the global fight to eradicate modern slavery and restore freedom to survivors. She currently serves as the Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Katherine received her Sc.B. in Psychology from Brown University, M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and
completed the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Can't make the lecture? Watch online through Brown's Live Webcast. RSVP on Facebook!
The Debra L. Lee Lecture Series is an annual event of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice which invites the most distinguished scholars and activists to Brown to discuss historic and contemporary issues related to the legacy of slavery in the Americas and the world.
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