Who We Are. What We Stand For.

Chair, VS. Editorial Board

VS. Confronting Modern Slavery in America is dedicated to heightening public awareness of human trafficking in America and providing a platform for anti-trafficking organizations and agencies to work collaboratively and innovatively together, outside their organizational silos, toward common goals. VS. is an innovative pro bono project conceived and executed by the Women's Leadership Initiative of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.

VS. makes injustice visible. Human trafficking-modern slavery-is here in America in crisis proportions. Our State Department has designated the United States as a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children-both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals-subjected to forced labor, debt bondage, involuntary servitude, and sex trafficking. The number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. is estimated to "reach[] into the hundreds of thousands... ."¹ These thousands of human beings,