Russell Wilson

Russell G. Wilson is a member of the CSEC Action Team Advisory Board who recently worked with the National Human Trafficking Training and Assistance Center as a Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Fellow (HTLA). As an HTLA Fellow, Russell worked with a team of anti-trafficking experts from across disciplines to formalize the federal definition of what it means to be “Survivor-Informed” for federally funded programs.

Russell graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with two degrees in Anthropology and South & Southeast Asian Studies. Russell completed his first research project in Cambodia, where he examined factors of resilience for male survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. He later continued this research in Indonesia. Russell has spent extensive time living and traveling throughout South and Southeast Asia. The time he has spent in this region of the world has given him a deep understanding of these cultures, as well as knowledge of the systemic mechanisms of human trafficking in these countries. It is through these experiences that Russell brings authenticity and passion to his research and his life.

Ultimately, Russell would like to bridge the gap of communication and collaboration between large-scale, top-down, multinational non-governmental organizations and smaller, grass-roots, bottom-up, organizations by helping cultivate relationships.