Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH | Katie Papke, LMSW, CAADC, CCTP, CCHTVSP | Elizabeth Lang, MA, BA

Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer of HEAL Trafficking, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) with appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Stoklosa is an internationally-recognized expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the wellbeing of trafficking survivors in the U.S. and internationally through a public health lens. She has advised the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of State, and the National Academy of Medicine on issues of human trafficking and testified as an expert witness multiple times before the U.S. Congress. Moreover, she has conducted research on trafficking and persons facing the most significant social, economic, and health challenges in a diversity of settings including Australia, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, South Sudan, Taiwan, and Thailand. Among other accolades, Dr. Stoklosa has been honored with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health Emerging Leader award, the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Faculty Community Service award, has been named as an Aspen Health Innovator and National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader. Her anti-trafficking work has been featured by the New York Times, National Public Radio, Fortune, Glamour, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, STAT News, and Marketplace. Dr. Stoklosa published the first textbook addressing the public health response to trafficking, “Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue, A Paradigm Expansion in the United States.”

Katie Papke, LMSW, CAADC, CCTP, CCHTVSP, is a Licensed Master Social Worker, Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a Clinically Certified Human Trafficking Victims Services Provider. She is currently working within a large medical facility working on a project to implement a human trafficking education and awareness initiative. In addition, Katie has years of experience in community education and consultation. She is a School of Social Work Program Adjunct Professor at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan teaching classes on human trafficking and homelessness. She is a national HEAL Trafficking speaker and trainer. Katie has her own private practice and has a passion working with victims and survivors of human trafficking, intimate partner violence and other forms of abuse. Her specialty is working with teens and adults who have a history of trauma, substance abuse, sexual exploitation, and human trafficking. Katie serves as the Vice President of the board of a non-profit agency, Sacred Beginnings in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sacred Beginnings is a safe haven for victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. Katie is highly involved with the Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force and the Solutions to End Exploitation Task force in Kent County, Michigan. 

Elizabeth Lang, MA, BA, is a senior consultant with the Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center
Project Analyst. In her role, Elizabeth supports federal clients in offering anti–trafficking capacity building programs, conducts research identifying key victim advocate organizations and victim service providers, assesses organizational needs to determine organization’s challenges and center assistance, coordinates and leads comprehensive and sustainable engagements with victim service providers and subject matter experts, ensures effective delivery of assistance by coordinating logistics and soliciting feedback, and develops anti–trafficking materials and resources for public use.