Women Lawyers of Sacramento is pleased to announce that the Soroptimist International of Greater Sacramento is hosting a special event to increase your understanding of the organizations, tools, successes and needs related to the fight against human trafficking. The event will be on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Piatti Restaurant (571 Pavilions Ln, Sacramento, CA 95825). Advance reservation is required for the event. Please email reservations@sacramentosoroptimists.org with your name and contact information by April 30, 2014. Please mail a check or money order, made out to SIGS for $22.00 per person, to Soroptimist International of Greater Sacramento, P.O. Box. 601504, Sacramento, CA 95860. You can also visit www.sacramentosoroptimists.org or email sigsgood@gmail.com. The following are the two speakers for the event:
Mary Jennings manages the Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking Program at the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA). She also supervises the SETA Refugee Services Program. The Rescue & Restore nationwide network of programs is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement. The purpose of Rescue & Restore is to raise awareness of human trafficking in order to identify victims and connect them to services, through capacity building of local organizations and coalition-building. Mary worked for more than 19 years on international programs promoting children and women’s rights, as well as hunger and poverty alleviation. Mary has completed a post baccalaureate certificate in Global Gender Issues at University of California, Davis and an MA in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Special Agent Rebekah L. Bills is a Civil Rights investigator with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Sacramento Division. Upon arriving to the Sacramento Division in January 2007, Special Agent Bills was assigned National Security matters to include both counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations, where she specialized in field intelligence and human source recruitment. Special Agent Bills has been assigned to the to the Civil Rights Unit since January 2010, to address various Civil Rights issues, including Human Trafficking, Color of Law Violations, and Hate Crime investigations. Prior to her employment with the FBI, Special Agent Bills served eight years in the United States Air Force as an Operations Intelligence Specialist.