The case of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has brought the once-taboo topic of sex trafficking back into the conversation. In fact, this modern-day slavery, where people, overwhelmingly women and girls, are bought and sold for sex is happening, right here, every day. In 2017, more than 10,000 people were trafficked, more than 3,000 were forced into the sex trade. Diana Mau founded NOMI Network after she was traveling in Cambodia, and someone offered to sell her traveling companion a woman for, well, whatever he wanted. She joins us to talk about her organization’s efforts to help women and girls in Cambodia and India to leave their traffickers, get an education, job training, or the skills needed to become entrepreneurs. Early next year, NOMI Network will open a center right here in New York City, where human trafficking is a growing concern, and a different kind of challenge. Shandra Woworuntu’s story of survival is shocking and compelling. She came to the U.S. from Indonesia on a temporary work visa thinking she had a job in a Chicago Hotel. Instead, she was kidnapped, sold and forced into the underground sex industry in New York.  She escaped, worked with the NYPD to find and prosecute her traffickers, earned a degree, and started an NGO recognized around the world for its work in helping trafficking victims. NOW-NYC has been battling human trafficking for more than a decade. Sonia Ossorio talks about how their activism has helped to change laws and protect victims.