IJM Day and What I Learned About Organizing

by Emily Yount / Topic: organizing, Advocacy, Students, events, IJM Day, Nashville October 24, 2013
IJM Day - Emily Yount

Emily Yount is the leader of the IJM student chapter at Vanderbilt University. Her group and their neighboring chapters at Belmont and Lipscomb Universities were instrumental in orchestrating the first ever “IJM Day,” that took place on October 1, 2013, in Nashville, TN. They also collected over 700 signed postcards, addressed to Senator Corker, asking him to support the Human Trafficking Prioritization Act. Emily is majoring in social work and will graduate in 2014.

 

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AU students to raise awareness for slavery by standing 27 hours

/ Topic: Students, Alabama November 8, 2012

 

(Side photo credit: Opelika-Auburn News)

Auburn University's Stand4Freedom campaign generated not only buzz and attention - but gathered advocacy postcards signed by students to urge their legislators to support the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.

 

 

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