Survivor Created Resources
This multimedia library offers event recordings, one-pagers, skill-practice case studies, and survivor experience videos. All resources are free for use and can be edited to meet your educational needs.
Survivor Soundbite: What Survivors Really Need After Leaving Human Trafficking Situations
Date: October 16, 2025
Topic(s): Case Management, Client Rights, Learning Basics, Survivor Experiences
Listen as survivor leader, and trafficking expert, Shamere McKenzie discusses the critical role of connection and healing after trafficking. In this clip, Shamere shares why the real work begins once a survivor leaves their trafficking situation—when providers can help individuals unpack emotional trauma, gaslighting, and trauma-bonding. She reminds us that restoring a survivor’s sense of value and worth is the foundation of recovery and the first step toward meaningful healing.
Survivor Soundbite: Why We Must Understand the Threats to Victims of Both Commercial Sex and Labor Trafficking
Date: October 15, 2025
Topic(s): Learning Basics, Survivor Experiences
Hear from survivor leader and trafficking specialist Shamere McKenzie, who explains why it’s essential for service providers to seek training on the force, fraud, and coercion tactics — and the frequency of additional forced labor — that survivors of commercial sex trafficking frequently endure at the hands of their traffickers.
Survivor Soundbite: An Evolution of Perspectives is Needed to See All U.S. Survivors of Labor Trafficking
Date: October 15, 2025
Topic(s): Survivor Experiences, U.S. Citizens
Hear James Dold discuss the nuances needed to fully understand the victimization experiences of survivors of human trafficking in the United States and the evolution of provider perspectives in seeing American-born survivors as victims of labor trafficking.
Survivor Soundbite: How Gang Members Use Children as Scapegoats in Forced Criminality
Date: July 30, 2024
Topic(s): Minors, Survivor Experiences
Xavier McElrath Bey points out how his trafficker’s experience navigating the criminal justice system allowed the trafficker to walk away while the younger, less experienced gang members were used as scapegoats.
Survivor Soundbite: Prison Labor and Children forced into Gangs In America
Date: February 21, 2024
Topic(s): Minors, Survivor Experiences
Clip is of James Dold speaking on prison labor and children being forced into gangs in America. Clip is from the February 28th, 2022 panel event. Facilitator and speaker Bella Hounakey led a discussion with Evelyn Chumbow, James Dold, Kwami Adoboe-Herrera, and Moninda Marube on why varied voices are helpful in the field, the barriers […]
Survivor Soundbite: “When We Talk About Intersectionality in Trafficking, We Have to Talk About the History”
Date: January 30, 2024
Topic(s): Foreign Nationals, Survivor Experiences
Clip is from a 2-hour survivor-led panel focuses on the intersections across the labor and sex trafficking industries. You can find the full event here. Quote is from Hazel Fasthorse.
Survivor Soundbite: “Intersectionality is Important Because Trauma Compounds”
Date: January 30, 2024
Topic(s): Foreign Nationals, Survivor Experiences
Clip is from a 2-hour survivor-led panel focuses on the intersections across the labor and sex trafficking industries. You can find the full event here. Quote is from Jaimee Johnson.
Survivor Soundbite: Missing Men and Boys When Considering Survivors
Date: January 30, 2024
Topic(s): Foreign Nationals, Survivor Experiences
Clip is from a 2-hour survivor-led panel focuses on the intersections across the labor and sex trafficking industries. You can find the full event here. Quote is from Eric Harris.
Survivor Soundbite: “The Face of Trafficking is Changing”
Date: January 30, 2024
Topic(s): Foreign Nationals, Survivor Experiences
Clip is from a 2-hour survivor-led panel focuses on the intersections across the labor and sex trafficking industries. You can find the full event here. Quote is from Hazel Fasthorse.
Survivor Soundbite: Definition of Trauma-Bonding
Date: January 30, 2024
Topic(s): Learning Basics, Survivor Experiences
Clip is from a panel of survivors of labor trafficking who discuss what traumatic bonding is and what it was like for them in the human trafficking context in which they experienced it. You can find the full event here. Quote is from James Dold