Guest Speaker: Whitney Anderson, MBA

Co-Founder & Executive Director | Dragonfly Home

Topic: Human Trafficking

Called out of a successful career in the corporate world, Whitney has worked full-time providing direct care to human trafficking victims/survivors and anti-human trafficking advocacy since 2012. Whitney has witnessed firsthand the need for increased services for human trafficking victims outside of the residential setting. Additionally, as an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, she saw a gap in human trafficking services reaching Native Americans and other underserved populations. She felt led to co-found the Dragonfly Home and establish the Human Trafficking and Restoration Center to fill these gaps.

Whitney also believes strongly in the effectiveness of home-like residential settings for victims of human trafficking to recover. Prior to co-founding the Dragonfly Home, she spend four years as Assistant Executive Director at an anti-human trafficking NGO in Oklahoma City. There, she helped found OKC's first state-certified residential program for adult women of sex trafficking. She also operated the organization's non-residential program for male and female victims of both sex and labor trafficking.

Additionally, Whitney strongly believes in the power of awareness, education and community outreach and has trained thousands of individuals in academic, tribal, professional and community settings on human trafficking and related topics.