Human Exploitation and Resilience

The Human Exploitation and Resilience program, led by Meredith Dank, documents and elevates the voices of the exploited and the vulnerable, highlighting their resilience and perseverance through rigorous, empirical research. This initiative has a number of ongoing studies, primarily focused on human trafficking—both labor and sex trafficking—as well as gender-based violence. Programming is conducted both domestically and internationally, in more than a dozen countries including Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Costa Rica, India, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam. Current and past funders include federal agencies (Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of Health and Human Services, and National Science Foundation) and private foundations. The program works with many government and nongovernment programmatic partners, including grassroots organizations. An example of this is a US Department of State funded intervention in Tanzania where the program has collaborated with a local organization, COMHESWA, to estimate the prevalence of forced labor among Tanzanian domestic workers abroad and implement an intervention where an awareness raising video has been created as part of the project:

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/ Jan 31,2024

Human Trafficking Risk Factors, Health Impacts

, and Opportunities for Intervention in Uganda: A Qualitative Analysis 

by Meredith Dank
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Feb 12,2025

Lauren Moton and Stephen Abeyta

Present at the 2024 American Society of Criminology Conference

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Dec 17,2024

Meredith Dank Awarded Additional Funding

to Improve Conditions for Migrating Ethiopian Domestic Workers

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May 15,2024

Meredith Dank Releases Reports on First-of-Kind

Human-Trafficking Studies

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Apr 17,2024

Meredith Dank Co-Authors Report on

Labor Trafficking in the United States

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Mar 07,2024

Human Exploitation and Resilience Program

Publishes Reports on Forced Labor Projects in Tanzania and Costa Rica

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Mar 07,2024

Stephen Abeyta Defends Dissertation on

Workplace Victimization

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Jan 31,2024

Meredith Dank Publishes on Human Trafficking

in Uganda

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Dec 09,2023

Lauren Moton Defends Dissertation on

Human Trafficking Intervention Courts and Receives Student Paper Award

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Apr 12,2023

Marron Program Spotlight: 

Human Exploitation and Resilience

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Oct 05,2022

Meredith Dank Receives $5.5 Million Grant

to Work with India’s Denotified Tribes to Combat Human Trafficking

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Jun 02,2022

Meredith Dank Awarded Funding:

Two Projects From U.S. Department of State

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May 05,2022

Meredith Dank Explores Labor Trafficking

of U.S. Citizens

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Mar 24,2022

Meredith Dank Receives Award from the Freedom Fund

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Mar 09,2022

Meredith Dank Awarded Funding From

Innovations For Poverty Action

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Nov 10,2021

Meredith Dank Joins the NYU Marron Institute

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