What everyday items are made by slave labor? How does American consumerism affect people around the world? Chocolate and coffee are connected to the world's worst offenses in slave labor? Where does consumer responsibility start and end?
Danelle Ragoonanan-Storph, Project Rescue
Ragoonanan-Storph has been affiliated with the International Institute of Connecticut since July 2009. She is the Director of Project Rescue, the anti-human trafficking program designed to raise awareness about the issue of trafficking in persons and serve victims of human trafficking. She has over seven years experience in the field of human rights. She has worked Liberian, Sierra Leonean, Togolese and other refugees in West African, and Iraqi refugees in the Middle East. While in New York City, she resettled refugees and helped asylum-seekers, along with other immigrants, to apply for immigration benefits. At present, Ms. Ragoonanan-Storph co-chairs the Connecticut Coalition Against Trafficking and serves on the federal Smuggling and Trafficking of Persons Investigative Task Force.
Neil Patrick, US Department of Labor
Patrick started as a Wage & Hour Investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor is 1978. He worked in both the Hartford District Office and the New Haven Area Office. In 2001, Neil was promoted to the position of Assistant District Director in the Hartford District Office and he became the District Director in August 2010, overseeing the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Through the years, Neil has served on a multitude of details and special assignments: he served as Facilitator at Basic 1 training in Jacksonville and at Basic 1 training in San Antonio; he has conducted training throughout the Region and in the National Office; he served on the Investigator Competency Revalidation Project; he has participated as a member of the Regional Accountability Review Team. Neil has always taken an active role in conducting outreach events for the Hartford DO.
May 12, 2011
Reception at 5pm. Conversation from 5:30 - 7pm.
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