Events

The Case of Burmese Women as Chinese Brides

Time: 4:20pm - 5:50pm
Date: July 8, 2016
Venue: Room 211, 2F, Small Conference Room, Multidisciplinary Research Building,
Tohoku University Kawauchi Campus (Map)

Speaker:
Laura Hackney, executive director and co-founder of NGO AnnieCannons

Speaker Profile:

Laura Hackney is the executive director and co-founder of AnnieCannons, Inc. She runs the organization's training program to teach survivors of human trafficking coding and other skills demanded by today's technology companies. In addition to this training, AnnieCannons, Inc. provides graduates with employment opportunities by securing contract development work from corporations and small businesses.

Previously, Hackney was the manager of the Program on Human Rights at Stanford University, where she led research initiatives on human trafficking, women's rights and public health. At Stanford, she also worked as the senior research associate for Stanford's Anti-Trafficking Project in the Mekong Sub-Region and as a program associate for the Freeman Spogli Institute's International Policy Implementation Lab. Her work focused on the connections between regional and cross-border irregular migration practices, gender dynamics and changing immigration policies in China, Myanmar, and Thailand. Specifically, she extensively investigated the issue of trafficking Burmese women and girls into the marriage market of China.

In the United States, she has worked with the Human Trafficking Task Force within the San Francisco Police Department's Special Victims Unit and supports many local Bay Area anti-trafficking groups. She holds a Master's degree from Stanford University and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Program details:

This seminar is part of the Junior Research Program hosted by the Tohoku Forum for Creativity.

This event is co-sponsored by Tohoku University's Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, the Graduate School of Law, and Research Center for Advanced Studies of Law and Policy.