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Dr. Laura J. Lederer
Dr. Laura J. Lederer founded and directed The Protection Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. From 2001 to 2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paula J. Dobriansky, and then Senior Director of Global Projects in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State. From 2001-2009 she was the Executive Director of the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons, a high level interagency policy group that staffed the President’s cabinet-level Inter-agency task force on Trafficking in Persons.
Dr. Lederer received her B.A. magna cum laude in comparative religions from the University of Michigan. After 10 years in philanthropy as director of community and social concerns at a private foundation, she continued her education at the University of San Francisco Law School and DePaul College of Law, receiving her juris doctorate in June 1994. She was awarded the Gustavus Meyers Center for Study of Human Rights Annual Award for Outstanding Work on Human Rights. She is the author of numerous articles on trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children, in addition to being the editor of Take Back The Night (1980) and The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography (1995).
Currently Dr. Lederer is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, where she has taught for several years, including the first full course on international trafficking in persons offered at a law school. She also serves as Vice President for Policy and Planning with Global Centurion, an anti-trafficking organization that focuses on the demand side of this issue. She is senior advisor for Stop Child Trafficking Now, an organization with a multi-phase plan to deploy hundreds of teams throughout the world in order to dramatically reduce and ultimately eliminate child sexual slavery worldwide.
DOCTORS NEEDED
Doctors at War is currently assembling a team of physicians to help us provide care for victims of human trafficking.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Doctors At War is currently looking for nonmedical volunteers who are willing to offer their time and talents to help.