Coffee Hour: Human Trafficking Part 2: What Can We Do? 5/8
Saturday May 8 /2010
10:00am-11:45am
At the Resource Center of the Americas
Presented in English
Description:
Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries, rivaling drug and weapons trafficking. The speaker will provide a general legal and international context for human trafficking, present information about what groups are doing to combat human trafficking worldwide, and lead the group in a discussion on how to take action to stop human trafficking.
Speaker:
Colleen Beebe Purisaca is the Co-International Director of Peace and Hope International.
Bio Information:
Colleen Beebe Purisaca is the Co-International Director of Peace and Hope International, a Peruvian-born international human rights organization with offices in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and the USA. For six years prior to this position, Beebe Purisaca directed the Education Program for The Advocates for Human Rights. Beebe Purisaca is an attorney with expertise in immigration matters, having worked on refugee and immigrant issues for over 25 years as an advocate, paralegal and lawyer with organizations such as Lutheran Social Service, the Minnesota Overground Railroad (volunteer), and the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for which she served in various capacities including executive director.
She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and cum laude graduate of Hamline University School of Law, where she currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching on the inter-American human rights system. Bilingual in Spanish and English, Ms. Beebe has lived and traveled extensively in the Americas volunteering with the Colombia Support Group in Minnesota, Fundación Social in Bogotá, Colombia, Comunidad Kairós and Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paz y Esperanza in Lima and Ayacucho, Peru.
She helped to found and has been directing since 1997 the Park Avenue Walk-in Legal Clinic, a joint project of Park Avenue Youth and Family Services, the Volunteer Lawyers Network and Peace and Hope International.
Beebe Purisaca has received several awards for her service to the community and commitment to human rights and social justice, including: the Hennepin County Bar Association 2001 Pro Bono Publico Public Sector Award, the 2002 Hamline University School of Law Distinguished Alumna Award, the 2003 Tartan Senior High School Distinguished Alumni Award, and a 2003 The Advocates for Human Rights Volunteer Award.
Contact Information:
Colleen Beebe Purisaca
Email: cbeebepurisaca@pazyesperanza.org
Phone: (612) 819-7162
