Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar is a coauthor on a new study that shows how trafficking victims could turn the odds in their favor with the help of salon workers—their rare point of contact with the outside world. Read more about what Seigfried-Spellar and the team recommend:

Gianna Lint, a student in Purdue Polytechnic’s Doctorate of Technology program, is applying her expertise in process improvement towards human trafficking research.

Purdue Polytechnic Institute hosted a design innovation event to fight the modern-day kidnapping and slavery epidemic known as “human trafficking.”

Two teams of Purdue students were honored for ground-breaking, socio-technical ideas to combat the criminal enterprise of human trafficking. They developed their solutions during Purdue Polytechnic’s “Design Innovation Challenge: Fight Human Trafficking in the Americas.”

The Polytechnic will host a public information presentation and all-night student brainstorming competition designed to help end modern-day slavery in North, Central and South America