Episode 89 :: Sr. Shirley Fineran: 21st Century Slave Trade—Helping Victims Recover from Human Traf
This episode has surprises. Our guest on the modern slave trade is not from a major city or border city. She is from northwest Iowa. How is slavery happening there? Sr. Shirley Fineran is the founder of the Siouxland Restoration Center to help people who have been victims of human trafficking. She is in the process of renovating Lila Mae’s House, a home for women who have experienced sex trafficking. “Siouxland,” by the way, refers to the greater metro-Sioux City area which is in Northwest Iowa on the Missouri River, right next to Nebraska and South Dakota.
Click here for more of Sr. Shirley's bio: https://www.briarcliff.edu/directory/social-work-faculty/fineran,-shirley/
More information on the 21st Century slave trade as reported in the Washington Post and New York Times are just two more clicks away.
* Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/06/27/its-the-21st- century-yet-slavery-is-alive-and-well/?utm_term=.88dc5fb480ff * New York Times, Nicholas Kristoff https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/meet-a-21st-century-slave.html
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