Dr. Rajan has spent over 20 years working with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of physical, sexual, and psychological trauma, in diverse cultural and socio-economic communities in California. She is an internationally published author and has written and spoken extensively all over the world on the topics of human trafficking and modern day sexual slavery. For the past nine years, Dr. Rajan has been doing research and clinical work with sex trafficking survivors in California and India. In 2008 Dr Rajan founded Project Satori and has since been working to realize its mission to provide comprehensive mental health care to survivors of sex-trafficking and their families, in and around Los Angeles; to promote education and advocacy around the global sex trafficking crisis, both domestically and abroad; and to offer psychoeducational training services about sex trafficking prevention and treatment in California, and through global partner programs worldwide.

Dr. Pye is the founder and president of Viridis Graduate Institute: Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities. Dr. Pye has been a leader in the development of the field of ecopsychology and will be publishing the first textbook in ecopsychology in 2018 (Introducing Ecopsychology, Routledge, 2018). As an environmentalist and educator, she has founded and directed international marine conservation organizations and taught internationally. She has worked with NGO’s from Cocos Island to the Galápagos Islands to co-develop the Eastern Pacific Biological Seascape Corridor with the Ministers of the Environment in Latin and South America. Dr. Pye has multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals and serves on the Editorial Board for Ecopsychology Journal, and for International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources. She is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Education and Communication, European Ecopsychology Society, and the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE). Dr. Pye also lectures at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Kaweah Delta Mental Health Hospital Psychiatric Residents, and Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Oksana Yakushko, PhD, is the chair and professor of clinical psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her scholarly and clinical work has focused on issues facing recent immigrants, including xenophobia and discrimination. Her engagement with human trafficking emerged from her efforts to address the issue in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union. She has worked with several NGOs as well as Western scholars who not only sought solutions to this rising global evil, but also worked to improve the lives of those shattered by the experience of being trafficked. Her presentations and publications have focused on educating clinicians about human trafficking, including more insidious instances such as the mail order bride business. As a feminist psychologist, she draws primarily on research and practice based in psychoanalytic and Jungian traditions, which seek to highlight the subjective, complex, relational, social, and often unconscious impacts of severe trauma.

Pamela Paulson has a Masters in counselling psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She spent 12 years working as a Marriage and Family Therapist and 28 years as a social worker in Orange County, specialising in child abuse, domestic abuse, children, families, adoptions and community collaborations. As a therapist, Pamela specializes in drama therapy and narrative therapy, working in trauma, child abuse, domestic violence, relationship issues and life transitions. Pam Paulson also serves as the executive director of the nonprofit organization, Heroes and Healthy Families, which helps military service men and women get the psychological care they need, and also addresses the impact of PTSD on the military. Pamela now lives in Los Angeles where she studies drama and works privately as a drama therapist.