Jeni Sorensen

Director, Human Trafficking Research Initiative at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Jeni Sorensen is a human trafficking specialist with 20 years of experience designing and managing programs to combat human trafficking in the U.S. and around the world. Ms. Sorensen currently serves as Director of Innovation for Poverty Action’s Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI), which fosters partnerships between researchers and program implementers to build and carry out rigorous research studies and promote the use of evidence-based practices. Ms. Sorensen serves on the steering committee of the Monitoring and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons (METIP) Community of Practice and is a victim services volunteer with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force in southern California.

Sessions by Jeni Sorensen

Group Meeting Plenary Session Side Events Thematic Panel

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Room

Event

Session

Speakers

Tuesday, 17 May

16:45 17:45

Second stage

Side Events

Side Event 11 - From Research to Action: the state of child labor and forced labor research and the need to build the evidence base to increase policy impact

The event describes the progress that has been made in building the evidence base on child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking, and highlight gaps in knowledge to bridge these gaps.

Michaëlle De Cock Eric Edmonds Harry Cook Jeni Sorensen Josephine Dadzie Marcia Eugenio Beate Andrees