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“I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex … I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not [...]

Amara urges DC Council to decriminalize Fare Evasion The Amara Legal Center joined a sign on letter addressed to the DC Council in an effort to decriminalize Fare Evasion. Right now, Fare Evasion [...]

On July 11, 2018, the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held a public hearing on the Protection from Sexual Extortion Amendment Act of 2017. This legislation would revise [...]

On June 18, 2018, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand hosted the National Survivor Network (“NSN”) at the U.S. Capitol, a trafficking survivor leadership program of the Coalition to Abolish [...]

On June 21, 2018, the DC Council Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety held a public hearing to discuss the Intrafamily Offenses and Anti-Stalking Orders Amendment Act of 2018. This [...]

In a shocking policy change, the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) recently dealt a significant blow to legal services for survivors of human trafficking. The change, [...]

  The Office for Victims of Crime (“OVC”), located within the U.S. Department of Justice, provides funding to organizations that support survivors of human trafficking. The Amara Legal [...]

  Background On April 11, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the bill generally known as SESTA/FOSTA into law. The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 or “SESTA” was introduced in the [...]

Author’s Note: This is the first part in a multi-part blog series exploring sex work in the DC metro area. Stay tuned for more posts about different aspects of sex work, challenges that sex [...]

What’s your background? I’m originally from east of the river in South Dakota. I became a lawyer because of a combination of civil and human rights advocacy on both sides of my family and [...]