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Celia Williamson is an American University of Toledo professor of social work and criminal justice and researcher, as well as community advocate who seeks to combat domestic human trafficking and prostitution. Williamson is the founder of the Second Chance program, co-chair of the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition, chair of the Research and Analysis State Trafficking Commission, and founder of the National Research Consortium on Commercial Sexual Exploitation. She has written extensively on issues of domestic minor sex trafficking and adult prostitution in the U.S. ==Biography== Williamson received her bachelor's degree in Social Work from the University of Toledo, her master's degree in Social Work from Case Western Reserve University and her Ph.D. from Indiana University. ;Community work and activism Williamson has organized an annual International Human Trafficking, Prostitution and Sex Work Conference at the University of Toledo since 2004. She also chairs the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition, which includes local criminal justice, social service, and health care agencies, along with businesses, university members, churches, citizens, and adult survivors, and the FBI Innocence Lost Task Force. In 1993, Williamson founded Second Chance, an organization that develops individualized service plans for women and children survivors and victims in Toledo, Ohio. Williamson has also been active in advocating for legislation surrounding sex trafficking on a state level. She supported Ohio Senate Bill 235, which implemented stricter penalties for sex traffickers and better protection for trafficked and exploited victims.〔 She is a vocal advocate of the currently proposed Ohio Senate Bill 262 – or “Safe Harbor” legislation – which would prevent Ohio from treating victims of child sex trafficking as criminals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Celia Williamson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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