The Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition holds annual gatherings focused on building community awareness and mobilization against human trafficking.

Bruce M. Sullivan is a professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He is a specialist in Hinduism, Buddhism, and India’s classical Sanskrit literary and theatrical traditions. He teaches a course on the Hindu epics.

A Jan. 25, 2011, blog post at Christianity Today‘s website detailed how a number of church-based anti-trafficking groups planned to combat the sex trade during the run-up to Super Bowl XLV in Dallas. The groups included Traffick911 and Love 146. And Christian Brothers Investment Services, an investment firm that works with 1,000 Catholic institutions, pressured Dallas hotels to help battle the sex trade.

Read a Dec. 29, 2010, Baptist Press story, “Groups target Super Bowl sex trafficking,” about Traffick911 and Love 146.

Read an Aug. 24, 2010, interview with singer Natalie Grant about her new album, a commentary on human trafficking. The article appeared in Christianity Today.

Read an article about Bethany Bible Church’s battle against trafficking in Phoenix, Ariz. The article appeared in the July/August 2010 issue of Books & Culture.

Read a June 16, 2010, blog entry by Joe Carter, web editor of First Things magazine, about the modern slave trade.

Chanchanit Martorell is executive director of Los Angeles’ Thai Community Development Center‘s Slavery Eradication and Rights Initiative. She advocates on behalf of Thai men, women and children trafficked to the U.S.

Karre Shaefer is director of the Kansas branch of Not for Sale: Re-Abolish Slavery and focuses on human rights and ethnic conflict.