A recap of our first full-day Human Trafficking Knowledge-Sharing Symposium
We did it, our way.
On Feb 20, 2025, in honour of Canada’s National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Aura Freedom hosted our first full-day Knowledge-Sharing Symposium, Disrupting The Tides.
Disrupting The Tides gathered diverse and passionate individuals including frontline workers, community organizations, advocates, survivors, educators, parents/guardians, healthcare workers, first responders, and other stakeholders invested in eradicating sex trafficking and gender-based violence.
Our Symposium combined education, compassion, and community, serving as a space for education, unlearning, dialogue, and meaningful connections. This Symposium was designed with the utmost care and intention, building upon Aura Freedom’s award-winning sex trafficking prevention training and ongoing community research with survivors and diverse frontline experts.
It was a powerful day for training frontline workers and advocates to build their capacities on sex trafficking and gender-based violence, equipping attendees with actionable knowledge and resources to enhance their practice, improve their service provision, and strengthen their advocacy efforts.
At the same time, we worked upstream to reimagine anti-human trafficking strategies and interventions that center Primary Prevention, which we know is the only way we will truly eradicate human trafficking.
Aura Freedom would like to thank the Regional Municipality of York for supporting our symposium.
Catch a glimpse of our day in this recap video below:
We are incredibly grateful to everyone who attended, including our brilliant panelists, artists, all those who shared their expertise and resources, and the countless individuals who contributed to this powerful movement for change. A special thank you to our main funders, York Region, and all of our sponsors, community partners, comrades, friends, sisters and siblings.
Let’s keep disrupting, together.
