Linda Smith

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Founder & President — Shared Hope International

Linda Smith is a leader in the global movement to end sex trafficking. In 1998, while serving in the U.S. Congress, Linda traveled to a notorious brothel district in India where the hopeless faces of women and children forced into prostitution compelled Linda to found Shared Hope International. Linda is the primary author of From Congress to the Brothel and Renting Lacy and co-author of The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and the DEMAND. Report. Linda has testified before Congress, presented at national and international forums, and has been published in news outlets and journals. Linda served as a Washington State legislator (1983-93), before she was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1994.

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Invading the Darkness

An eye-opening inside look into the historic movement to stop the injustice of sexually trafficked children in America, Invading the Darkness highligh...

Featured on: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

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