Andrea Powell
Andrea is co-founder of FAIR Girls and Karana Rising, and she has led national and international efforts to develop services, housing, and policies to advance the rights and healing of survivors of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse. Andrea has served and interfaced with over 2,000 survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence in the United States, the Balkans, Russia, Bangladesh, India, and Uganda. Andrea worked alongside survivor leaders to advance recommendations to address image based sexual violence, including synthetic sexual forgeries, to the White House as well as global and US policy and technology arenas. Andrea has her graduate degree in European Law and Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. Andrea is an advisory board member to the Joyful Heart Foundation, founded by actress Mariska Hargitay and is The Reclaim Coalition’s representative to the French Laboratory on Women’s Rights Online. Andrea’s first book, Believe Me, publishes in July 2024.