LECTURE | Studying the sex trade

On Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m. join the University of Illinois Springfield’s ECCE Speaker Series for a Women’s History Month presentation on the exploitation of girls and women via sex trafficking. Speaker Jody Raphael is a senior research fellow at the Schiller DuCanto and Fleck Family Law Center at the DePaul College of Law in Chicago and an attorney by trade for 25 years. She has been studying the sex trade industry for the last 15 years to determine how girls and women enter the prostitution industry and whether or not their entry was via sex trafficking. Raphael will discuss her research as well as some of the facts and speculation surrounding sex trafficking in the Midwest. For more information about this and other ECCE Speaker Series events, visit http://uis.edu/speakerseries.