Look Again: Sex Trafficking in your Own Backyard - Elizabeth Melendez Fisher | TEDxOakParkWomen
Elizabeth Melendez Fisher, Selah Freedom CEO
and President, gives a surprising look into the
world of sex trafficking and challenges communities
to look again at this issue. Her passionate approach
stretches our understanding of this matter from
being an “over-there” problem, taking place in
third-world countries and unleashes the realities
of what it looks like in our own backyard. She
shares eye opening realities about how
girls and boys are lured into this industry
and brings to light the root issues which
have allowed it to thrive within our own nation.
Elizabeth Melendez Fisher, CEO/President leads
Selah Freedom, a national organization, providing
solutions to local victims of sex trafficking. Fisher
has been described as, “Part healer, part
businesswoman, all resolve—if Selah Freedom
is bringing light into the darkness, as the slogan
says, then Fisher is the one behind the megawatt.”
Selah Freedom educates over 45,000 annually, has
residential safe houses in Florida and Chicago, leads
at-risk teen prevention programs, and trains and
equips law enforcement agencies.
Fisher speaks nationally about the root of
sex trafficking, received the prestigious
Tampa Bay Business Woman of the Year
Award for the Nonprofit Category in 2014
and has been featured in various media outlets.
Prior to Selah Freedom, Fisher worked in the
Chicago area as a therapist and in leadership
development. She is a graduate of Southern
Illinois University with a bachelor of arts in
communications and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology.
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