This was the second meeting at the YWCA was extremely different than the first meeting. We started off by discussing the movie night that will be taking place on July 11th, but then we shifted gears and began talking to a man named Russell who went to Berkley, and works for companies related to human trafficking. We learned a lot about how detailed and complex the web is, and we discussed why there is such a high demand for human trafficking.
As the discussions with Russell got deeper, we learned that he was trafficked when he was younger. He told us his story how it broke his spirit because he believed that he deserved that, and that there was a point in time where he thought he was the man in control when he was being trafficked because it helped him get through. I learned that he was first trafficked by his mom at the age of seven because she needed to pay rent, then it was his foster brother when he was placed in foster care, and then he did it to himself when he was on the street because he needed a way to survive. This taught me that there is more to a person's story than that meets the eye. Everyone in the internship appreciated him telling his story because it is something that is extremely hard to do, and I know that I will appreciate the life I have because I could never imagine being placed in the same situation as he was placed in.
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