The Buckhead Cascade Chapter of the Links, Inc. will host a public forum and luncheon to address human trafficking in our community on Saturday, November 10 at 11:30am at the Piedmont Driving Club.

While human trafficking has been identified as the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world, Atlanta has been identified as a major transportation hub for trafficking young women and one of 14 U.S. cities with the highest levels of sex trafficking of children.

The forum, moderated by former Atlanta Mayor and Link member Shirley Franklin, will address the tragedy of modern day slavery through human trafficking which afflicts more than 20 million people around the world.

In response to the recent Obama Administration announcement of several new initiatives aimed at ending trafficking nationwide, the forum will engage the community in a dialogue around eradicating sex trafficking of children in Atlanta and address much-needed efforts to help the survivors. 

Forum panelists include:

• Lisa Williams, Founder/Director, Living Water for Girls 
• Deborah Richardson, EVP, National Center for Human & Civil Rights
• Nekia Hackworth, Asst. US Attorney, Northern District of GA, Criminal Division
• Nina R. Hickson, former Fulton County Juvenile Court Judge
• Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Moderator

Tickets are available for $60 by calling (404) 218-8351.
 

The Links, Incorporated

 The Links, Incorporated celebrates 65 years as a women's volunteer service organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African-Americans and other persons of African ancestry. A premier international service organization with more than 12,000 members in 276 chapters located in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, its legacy of friends providing service that changes lives, established by the original circle of nine friends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946, is alive and well.

With more than 2 million service hours recorded in the past three years, members regularly contribute more than 500,000 documented service hours in their respective communities annually. For more information, visit www.linksinc.org.