Best of Insight 2022. Book “Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker.” Missing indigenous women crisis in Northern California’s Lost Coast. Sacramento County is a hot spot for new HIV infections in the United States.
Today's Guests
- Prosecutor Maggy Krell discusses her new book, “Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker,” which explains the misunderstandings of human trafficking and how social media and the internet make it more difficult to track and prosecute.
- Dr. Blythe George, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Merced, member of the Yurok Tribe and research partner for the “I will see you again in a good way” project on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit peoples, discusses a missing women crisis in Northern California’s Lost Coast.
- Jacob Bradley-Rowe, Executive Director of the non-profit Sunburst Projects, discusses new grant funding for HIV and STD testing in Sacramento County, which is one of 40 hot spots for new HIV infections in the United States.
