Date/Time
May 26, 2016
7:30 pm
Location
Cable Car Cinema & Cafe
204 South Main Street
Providence, RI
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Family Service of RI‘s Jennifer Etue, LICSW, will join Academy Award-winning director Jeffrey Brown to discuss his movie Sold and human trafficking.
“We’re looking forward to the thoughts and insights of Jen Etue, who has been working with sexually exploited populations for nearly 20 years,” he said. “She’s at the front lines of addressing the human trafficking epidemic.”
The discussion will take place after the 7:30 p.m. Thursday (May 26) showing of the movie at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, Providence. The film, based on a novel by Patricia McCormick, tells the story of 13-year-old Lakshmi, who is trafficked from her rural village in Nepal and brought to a brothel in India. Sold co-stars Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) and was executive produced by Emma Thompson. Tickets are only available viaTugg.com.
Jennifer Etue, LICSW, is clinical administrator of residential services forFamily Service of RI, a statewide non-profit human services agency which, among its services, helps victims of sex trafficking. Ms. Etue has worked with sexually exploited populations since 1999, and is a member of the sex trafficking task force for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.