https://www.boysdocumentary.com/cameron-conaway daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579699456692-4SDQ4R2XMEQ0AYFYHN93/Cameron+Conaway+headshot.png Cameron Conaway - Cameron Conaway Cameron Conaway is the author of six books, including Malaria, Poems, an NPR Best Book of 2014. He is a recipient of the 2016 Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Fellowship, an honor given to one journalist each year, and his work has appeared in publications such as Newsweek, ESPN, The Guardian, Reuters, NPR, Forbes, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Rattle, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others. Conaway has received grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the International Reporting Project, nominations for a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize, and writing residencies from Penn State University, the Wellcome Trust, and the University of Arizona. He lives in San Francisco. Connect with him here on LinkedIn. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/kartal-peel daily 0.75 2020-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580090086917-66H13Z4WO22BVMI3S7X5/IMG_0036.jpg Kartal Peel - Kartal Peel Hi my name is Kartal and I have a bio I am an award-winning digital creator that has done a few things in life. I’m a graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Art, I’ve owned 3 successful businesses and now I’m a Creative Producer for a national branded content studio. It’s my dream job, I get to live my passion every day by connecting brands with audiences through my dynamic storytelling and advertising campaigns. Over the last few years, I have had the opportunity to do some pretty dope work but honestly, I’m still winging it. I feel like if more people admitted to not knowing what they are doing, that we are all just winging it we’d all be a lot saner. I’ve gained a lot of skills that have come with a lot of experiences but with that, I intend to truly never know what I’m doing for as long as I live. I want to be a student and forever learning in this thing called life. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-01-17 https://www.boysdocumentary.com/michael-john-cusick daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580159496429-Z4SMUZIIU1190YRDDM04/9904v-copy.jpg Michael John Cusick - Rev. Michael John Cusick, M.A., L.P.C. Michael is a Licensed Professional Counselor, spiritual director, speaker, and author of two books including Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle and Somebody's Daughter: An Experiential Guide. Having experienced the restoring touch of God in a deeply broken life and marriage, Michael’s passion is to connect life’s broken realities with the reality of the gospel. In addition to leading Restoring the Soul and equipping Christian organizations around the world, Michael formerly served as an adjunct professor at Denver Seminary and full-time professor at Colorado Christian University. He holds an MA in Biblical Counseling from Colorado Christian University and an MA from the College of Education at the University of Denver. Michael lives with his wife Julianne in Littleton, Colorado where he enjoys the Rocky Mountains and a host of other outdoor activities with friends and family. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/sharon-w-cooper daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579699589266-N4MFRYXUDHE6B3IL9SIJ/DrCooper.HeadshotColor.jpg Sharon W. Cooper - Dr. Sharon Cooper Dr. Sharon Cooper is a Developmental and Forensic Pediatrician who cares for children and select adults with different abilities, as well as those who have been victims of maltreatment. Dr. Cooper retired from the United States Army with the rank of Colonel and holds adjunct faculty positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences at Bethesda, Maryland. She has provided numerous lectures nationally and internationally and her primary areas of expertise include all forms of child maltreatment, child torture and child sexual exploitation. Dr. Cooper has published many chapters on the subject of child sexual exploitation and is the lead editor of one of the most comprehensive texts in the U.S. on this subject. She works with victims and families of children who have been the prey of all types of online and offline exploitation. She has provided training to more than a thousand professionals on sexual exploitation under the auspices of NCMEC. She serves on several boards and working groups to include the Marie Collins Foundation (UK), the Academy on Violence and Abuse (USA), and the Vatican’s Congress on Child Dignity in the Digital World. Dr. Cooper has served as an expert witness in several hundred cases of child maltreatment, and especially provides testimony on all aspects of child sexual exploitation. Dr. Cooper continues to serve with an International Working Group on the victim impact for survivors of child sexual abuse imagery, sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. She recently produced Not Just Pictures, the first American documentary to provide insight into the ongoing extraordinary impact of the victimization of children whose abusive images are distributed in cyberspace. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/the-team daily 0.75 2020-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580090404869-SALTN6BM3BHYGTUUOGCZ/IMG_0036.jpg THE TEAM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579716602726-GX0Z5833J7MQ0SVS8UN5/50266409_10158064824633294_8665408222636539904_n+%281%29.jpg THE TEAM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579716562078-2B7AQGV4IVQABVRDI5CC/BartlettWeddings_Portraits_SmithFamily_050.jpg THE TEAM https://www.boysdocumentary.com/the-cast daily 0.75 2020-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580089111027-LE0JHC11HCCZ6AIHTS0A/DrCooper.HeadshotColor.jpg THE CAST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580089338308-1PZB9NYKHAP8MQA2Z56L/Headshot+photo+-+adjusted.jpg THE CAST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580089779792-BRWHEQ566IMG9907LSKT/Cameron+Conaway+headshot.png THE CAST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580159366947-AWXZ2GKZGPQ4MPFEMN74/9904v-copy.jpg THE CAST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580089678092-WS2DTWZAQJY464B1TRB2/RussellWilson_ErinAshford-45a_Small.jpg THE CAST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1580089234292-LWSMD34PLTATOGQ91IYM/Carol+Smolenski+headshot.jpg THE CAST https://www.boysdocumentary.com/chris-smith daily 0.75 2020-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579716175579-YPBLUFTFZK5RGUY4A1E8/50266409_10158064824633294_8665408222636539904_n+%281%29.jpg Chris Smith - Chris Smith Chris is an innovative influencer in the anti-trafficking movement. Compelled to action, he and his wife Anna joined forces to launch nonprofit Restore One in 2012 addressing sex trafficking of men and boys. With tenacity, Chris served as Restore One's Founding President and continued to lead with excellence, guiding the organization to champion the needs of boys and men. Influence by the lacking education of male sex trafficking, he partnered with Creative Director Kartal Peel and Anna, to co-produce Boys Documentary. Chris continues to excel in the field of social justice by serving nonprofits through compelling storytelling and impactful digital marketing. Through his business Uprise Social, Chris strives to take social justice issues into practical action through social media marketing and management. When he's not working, Chris is in the wild backcountry of Colorado, biking, snowboarding, and exploring with his wife and daughter. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/carol-smolenski daily 0.75 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579798060165-BN6A7PMCNE45WIY4X7IL/Carol+Smolenski+headshot.jpg Carol Smolenski - Carol Smolenski Carol Smolenski is formerly Executive Director and one of the founders of ECPAT-USA, a children’s rights organization that has worked for the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation since 1991. She is a long time nationally recognized expert on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children. At ECPAT-USA developed projects against the trafficking of children in New York City, Mexico, Belize and Brazil. Among other achievements is she has been named a subject matter expert on sexual exploitation of children for the Dept. of Health and Human Services Family and Youth Services Bureau and the Runaway and Homeless Training and Technical Assistant Center and was a member of the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States She is a winner of New York’s Union Square Award. She is honored to be included in the New York New Abolitionists book. She has presented testimony in venues ranging from the New York City Council to the United States Congress to the United Nations. She is frequently quoted in media reports about child trafficking. She has a Masters degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College and an M.Phil. degree from Columbia University. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/host-a-screening daily 0.75 2020-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579700230886-W9J1IBY4J52C3NKYDBHV/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg HOST A SCREENING - Request A Speaker Consider inviting and hosting a member of the Boys Documentary team and cast to come to your organization, university or faith group, to help facilitate your event and share their insight. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/robert-lung daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579699493117-PHUN2E6DWG0Z880HRYTG/Headshot+photo+-+adjusted.jpg Robert Lung - Robert Lung In addition to working in his current full-time position with the Colorado Judiciary, Robert provides presentations nationally and internationally on issues such as human trafficking, childhood trauma and resiliency. Robert presents to diverse audiences including law enforcement, social service caseworkers, attorneys, the military, judicial officers, nurses, first responders, faith-based organizations and others. Robert presented at several national Juvenile Sex Trafficking Conferences hosted by Shared Hope International including in Washington, D.C., Orlando, FL, Phoenix, AZ and New Orleans, LA from 2013 to 2017. In 2016 Robert was appointed to the Colorado Human Trafficking Council by then Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Nancy Rice to represent the Colorado Judiciary. In 2017 then President Barack Obama selected Robert to serve on the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States. And in 2018, Robert was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. In 2019 Robert serves as the Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, the Vice-Chair of the Colorado Human Trafficking Council and as a consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice, the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center through the Office of Trafficking in Persons and on the Human Trafficking Expert Consultant Network for the State Department. Robert is current working on his first book, a biography of trafficking, trauma, resiliency, faith and above all else, hope. In his “free” time Robert endeavors to keep up with his two adopted sons in hiking, downhill mountain biking and dirt biking. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/russel-g-wilson daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579699409941-Q2DYLFZQI64PGLZWT074/RussellWilson_ErinAshford-45a_Small.jpg Russel G. Wilson - Russell G. Wilson Russell G. Wilson graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016, with a degree in Anthropology and South & Southeast Asian Studies. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Russell completed his first research project in Cambodia looking at the factors of resiliency for male survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. While at Cal, Russell received the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies Undergraduate Merit Scholarship and the Benjamin Gilman Scholarship to continue his research in Indonesia for the summer of 2016. Russell has worked with the National Human Trafficking Training and Assistance Center as a Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Fellow (HTLA). As an HTLA Fellow, Russell worked with a team of anti-trafficking experts from across disciplines to formalize the federal definition of what it means to be “Survivor-Informed” for federally funded programs. Russell has spent extensive time living and traveling throughout South and Southeast Asia. The time he has spent in this region of the world has given him a deep understanding of these cultures as well as knowledge of the systemic mechanisms of human trafficking in these countries. It is through these experiences Russell brings authenticity and passion to his research and his life. Ultimately Russell would like to bridge the gap of communication and collaboration between large-scale, top-down, multi-national NGO’s and the smaller, grass-roots, bottom-up, organizations by facilitating collaborative relationships. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/thefilm daily 0.75 2020-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579998395933-541JD2FKDFQJOS5OTULS/2019+BOYS+FINAL.00_21_24_06.Still003.jpg THE FILM - ABOUT MALE SEX TRAFFICKING https://www.boysdocumentary.com/anna-smith daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e21f0ab4e3c863cbe1e2856/1579699730831-GN301UUQER101JMBR5BB/BartlettWeddings_Portraits_SmithFamily_050.jpg Anna Smith - Anna Smith Anna has spent the majority of her career collaborating with leading trauma experts to develop innovative approaches to care for boys and men who’ve exited the life of sex trafficking. As a result of co-founding nonprofit Restore One with her husband Chris and serving boys and men from years 2012-2019. While running Restore One, she was compelled by the lack of education pertaining to male sex trafficking and took the leap with Kartal and Chris to co-produced a full-length film entitled, Boys Documentary, an educational tool concerning the sexual trafficking of boys and men. As an anti-trafficking advocate, Anna enjoys using her knowledge and personal experience to strengthen and stand in freedom with others through speaking, writing, teaching, and consulting. Journeying through her own recovery process, she understands that healing is a painful yet beautiful path we must take to receive freedom. Anna believes healing is possible for everyone, no matter age, gender, or situation - it is possible. As an extension to her trauma-care work, she enjoys serving survivors of trauma and abuse through counseling and trauma-informed yoga through her business, Hope Bound Yoga and Counseling LLC. Anna’s education includes a Master of Social Work from East Carolina University and 500 RYT in yoga therapeutics from the Wilmington Yoga Center. Aside from her work, Anna loves to adventure outdoors with her husband, Chris, and play with her sweet daughter Asha. https://www.boysdocumentary.com/rentpurchase daily 0.75 2020-05-05 https://www.boysdocumentary.com/home daily 1.0 2020-04-29