From a press release
CHICAGO, February 9, 2016 Human trafficking claims an estimated 27 million victims worldwide, producing nearly $31 billion in revenue each year through the largest exploitation of innocent men, women, and children ever seen in history. As human trafficking continues to be a growing problem in America, there is increased education and awareness efforts on the role everyone can play to combat this issue. This is why the Loyola University Museum of Art ( LUMA ) is hosting the More Than a Survivor: More Than a Story Exhibit.
More than A Survivor: More Than A Story
The More Than A Survivor: More Than A Story Campaign and Poster Series features a series of stunning portraits of 22 women from across the country who are all survivor leaders in a variety of venues from the arts to politics to science to the non-profit community and more. The More Than A Survivor photography exhibition honors their diversity, beauty, strength, accomplishments and leadership and celebrates their present and their future. The exhibition features the leadership of survivors in their communities, their families and in their own lives and presents their images and words as a powerful antidote to the stereotypes of commercially sexually exploited and trafficked victims perpetually broken and forever limited by their trauma. This traveling exhibition is also designed to be a poster series that will utilized by youth serving agencies to inspire a tangible sense of hope and future for commercially sexually exploited and trafficked girls and women
Public Programming
Human trafficking survivors and Loyola University Chicago alumnae, Marian Hatcher and Shamere McKenzie will be speaking tonight, February 9th on their own experiences with an introduction by Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart on his department's efforts to stop sex trafficking in Cook County.
The launch of the More than a Survivor: More than a Story sex trafficking exhibit will take place on Tuesday, February 9, 6 p.m. at LUMA, 820 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 60611.
About Sun Gate Foundation:
Sun Gate Foundation, a 501 c 3 non-profit, survivor led organization independent organization addressing a critical gap in the human trafficking aftercare community by making a substantial commitment to survivors. Sun Gate Foundation relies on donations and grants to fund the educational opportunities provided to survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking in the United States. The ultimate goal is to equip these young girls, boys, women, and men with a solid foundation to confidently go after their dreams.