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About this book
The True Story of How a Trafficked Teen and Her Advocate Changed the Justice System and Found True Freedom.
When Andrea Powell, founder of Karana Rising and a longtime advocate for victims of sexual exploitation, received a letter from a desperate female inmate in Georgia's Pulaski State Prison, she had no idea that her life was about to radically change.
Tiffany Simpson, a teenage mother who’d been pimped out by her boyfriend, had been disappeared by the system. Now, she was doing thirty years for the crime of being trafficked. She had written to ask Andrea, “Am I a victim of sex trafficking, or am I a prostitute?”
As their relationship grew, it became Andrea’s mission to correct this miscarriage of justice and help Tiffany win her freedom. But, as she soon learned, some cases aren’t so simple – and, far too often, the systems we count on to protect victims of trafficking and violence silence them instead.
This poignant and harrowing memoir brings to light the truth of what survivors endure, and how often those we villainize are themselves victims and casualties. However, the ultimate message is one of hope, and love, because when compassion and truth take center stage, two people really can change the world.
About the Author
Andrea Powell is the Director of the Image-based Sexual Abuse Initiative at Panorama and the cofounder of Karana Rising. For the past 18 years, 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.
In 2004, Andrea co-founded FAIR Girls, where she led her team for 14 years in providing case management services and establishing a safe home for survivors in Washington, D.C, and played a leadership role with the DC Human Trafficking Task Force. At Karana Rising, co-founded by Andrea in 2019, survivors lead to advance justice and healing with and for survivors who have experienced arrest and incarceration as a result of their own trafficking. Through these efforts, 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 has a master’s degree from the University of Bonn, Germany. In her spare time, she is a multimedia artist, author, and bunny mom living with her daughter on the beach in San Diego. This is her first book.
Learn more at karanarising.org.
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