Our Team.
Our small team, based around the world, supports the Freedom United community by working with partners to identify and create opportunities to bring our voices together and build powerful calls for change.
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Joanna Ewart-James
Executive Director
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Dianne Pratt
Administrator
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Ellie Finkelstein
Campaigner and News Editor
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Hoey Crain
Chief Technology Officer
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Jared Bradley
Marketing Technology Officer
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Kiki Lindenau
Advocacy Officer
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Krysta Bisnauth
Senior Advocacy Officer
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Nicole Alexander
Finance Director
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Robert Boneberg
Senior Campaign and Policy Counsel
Our Board of directors.
We are honored to have an amazing group of talented leaders on our Board who using their knowledge and skills, guide Freedom United to best leverage the influence and power of its community.
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Abid Qureshi
Partner - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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Catherine Read
Co-Founder, Points True North
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Joanna Ewart-James
Executive Director
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Elizabeth Salett
Founder, Human Trafficking Search
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Erika Bustos
Chair, Freedom United & Chief Operating Officer for Risk & Finance Technology, Bank of America
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Joe Schmidt
Business Advisor & Investor
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Lyle Gravatt
Partner - Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
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Leland Richards
Partner, Adams Street Partners
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Micky Verma
CIO, CTO, Hybrid IT Cloud and Services Executive, Softchoice
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Pam Dunsky
Managing Partner - Product Development, Tata Consultancy Services
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Paula Pingel
Global Operations and Business Development Executive
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Rhoan Morgan
CEO and Co-Founder, DemandLab
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Richard Lui
Anchor, MSNBC
Our Advisors.
Our Advisors are people with deep expertise and for some, lived experience of modern slavery and human trafficking. Team members consult our Advisors on campaigns, and some are actively leading efforts
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Angela Guanzon
Advisor, Advocate, Consultant and Survivor
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Brooke Axtell
Advisor, Founder and Director, Survivor Healing + Empowerment
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Cecilia Oebanda
Advisor, Founder, Voice of the Free
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E. Benjamin Skinner
Advisor, Founder and Principal, Transparentem
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Elizabeth Tang
Advisor, General Secretary, International Domestic Workers Federation
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Grace Forrest
Co-Founder and Director of Walk Free
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Greg Carney
Advisor, Entrepreneur / Film & TV Executive Producer
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Kevin Bales
Advisor, Professor of Contemporary Slavery, University of Nottingham
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Nancy Esiovwa
Advisor, Survivor and activist
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Neil Bagchi
Legal Advisor, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Bagchi Law
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Payzee Mahmod
Campaigner and Child Marriage Survivor
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Sophie Otiende
Advisor, CEO, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
Our Patrons.
Our Patrons are the lifeblood of our work around the world. Each has committed to financially supporting our work with an annual gift over $1,000 or over $5,000. Our community could not do what we do with this incredibly committed group of generous Patrons.
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