Mitzi Pope (Muscogee (Creek) Nation), MSW, LCSW | Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH | Elizabeth Lang, MA, BA

Mitzi Pope, LCSW is a citizen of Muscogee (Creek) Nation and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over twelve years serving Tribal communities. Ms. Pope currently serves as a Project Specialist (Contractor) for the Office for Victims of Crime Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center and previously served as The Muscogee Nation’s Family Violence Prevention Program Therapist, drafting and implementing counseling policy, providing trauma-informed counseling to victim survivors and women’s trauma groups. In addition to direct service work, Mitzi has developed and facilitated victim service and trauma-informed training opportunities and resources and has provided advocacy and violence prevention education in rural and urban Tribal communities.

Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officerof HEAL Trafficking, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) with appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Stoklosa is an internationally-recognized expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the wellbeing of trafficking survivors in the U.S. and internationally through a public health lens. She has advised the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of State, and the National Academy of Medicine on issues of human trafficking and testified as an expert witness multiple times before the U.S. Congress. Moreover, she has conducted research on trafficking and persons facing the most significant social, economic, and health challenges in a diversity of settings including Australia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Among other accolades, Dr. Stoklosa has been honored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health Emerging Leader award, the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Faculty Community Service award, has been named as an Aspen Health Innovator and National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader. Her anti-trafficking work has been featured by the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fortune, Glamour, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, STAT News, and Marketplace. Dr. Stoklosa published the first textbook addressing the public health response to trafficking, “Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue, A Paradigm Expansion in the United States.”

Elizabeth Lang, MA, BA, is a senior consultant with the Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center Project Analyst. In her role, Elizabeth supports federal clients in offering anti–trafficking capacity building programs, conducts research identifying key victim advocate organizations and victim service providers, assesses organizational needs to determine organization’s challenges and center assistance, coordinates and leads comprehensive and sustainable engagements with victim service providers and subject matter experts, ensures effective delivery of assistance by coordinating logistics and soliciting feedback, and develops anti–trafficking materials and resources for public use.