Hiding in Plain Sight - Modern Day Slavery in the Heartland: Kris Wade at TEDxWyandotte

Kris Wade is the executive director /co-founder of the Kansas City Justice Project, a nonprofit human rights organization in Kansas City, Missouri, providing advocacy and criminal justice system navigation for women in poverty suffering from homelessness, domestic violence, mental illness, addiction, prostitution, or other forms of trafficking exploitation/abuse. She was a panelist on Human Trafficking at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, as well as a member of the community advisory board of the Missouri Reentry Program through Missouri Probation and Parole and a member of the Coalition Against Human Trafficking. Kris is also a survivor of crimes against women.

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