UW professor to speak on combating human trafficking April 23

Western Washington University will host Kirsten Foot, associate professor of Communications at the University of Washington, for a talk at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 23, in Fraser Hall Room 102.

Foot will discuss her book, “Collaborating Against Human Trafficking: Cross Sector Challenges and Practices,” and the importance of working together against modern slavery is essential. She will also discuss how to improve counter-trafficking collaborations. The talk is free and open to the public.

Foot is the lead author of the award-winning book “Web Campaigning,” and coeditor of “The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning.” Her work has been published in an array of journals in the field of communication and beyond. Foot teaches courses on topics such as theories of technology and society, politics, digital media concepts, internet research methods and human trafficking.

Her most recent book, “Collaborating Against Human Trafficking: Cross Sector Challenges and Practices,” will be released this fall by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In addition to researching and teaching on efforts to end human trafficking, Foot advises anti-trafficking coalitions.

Her talk is sponsored by the Campus Christian Fellowship, the Inn and the Western Christian Faculty Forum. For more information contact Geri Forsberg, senior instructor at WWU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences at 360-350-4886 or Geri.Forsberg@wwu.edu.