Dr. Linda Gray Smith

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  Published on: 8/2/2009    Last Visited: 8/2/2009  

  Locally, several cases have shocked area residents, including one in which a man allegedly started grooming his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter to be a dominatrix.Earlier this year, federal prosecutors in Kansas City announced that, for the first time in the country, they had used a federal human-trafficking law to prosecute customers who allegedly tried to pay for sex with children.That groundbreaking effort recently drew praise from Linda Smith, the president of Shared Hope International, an organization that studies child sex trafficking.“What we have there is a very bold, innovative practice,” Smith said. “Innovation will get prosecutions.
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  That groundbreaking effort recently drew praise from Linda Smith, the president of Shared Hope International, an organization that studies child sex trafficking.
  
  "What we have there is a very bold, innovative practice," Smith said.

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  Published on: 8/15/2009    Last Visited: 8/15/2009  

  Editor's Note: The Constitution-Tribune asked Dr. Linda Gray Smith, R-2 Superintendent, and Chillicothe Middle School Principal Bryan Copple questions about moving the sixth grade students to the Chillicothe Middle School for the school year.

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  Published on: 10/21/2009    Last Visited: 10/21/2009  

  Linda Smith (U.S. Congress 1994-98) Speaks at Congressional Hearing on International Violence against Women: Hearing also Features Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman and Ambassador Verveer
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  Shared Hope International President and Founder Linda Smith (U.S. Congress 1994-98) has been invited to speak on the issue of sex trafficking -- an extreme form of violence against women.
  
  Sex trafficking dynamics vary from country to country, but there are certain underlying themes existing in all trafficking markets: the demand for sexual services and the vulnerability of girls and women to traffickers. Linda Smith will share stories from her experience working with survivors of sex trafficking around the globe to illustrate that from the brothels in Mumbai, India to popular intersections in Washington, D.C., women and girls are sold for sex and victimized serially by the men that buy them.
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  Before founding Shared Hope International (SHI), Linda Smith served as a U.S. Congresswoman from Washington State. While still a member of the U.S. Congress, Linda Smith traveled to Falkland Road in Mumbai, India - one of the worst brothel districts in the world. The hopeless faces of desperate women and children forced into prostitution compelled Linda to found SHI. Linda has created a revolutionary model for restoration, building partnerships with local groups to provide homes and shelters where women and children can live with no time limit.

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  Published on: 8/19/2009    Last Visited: 10/17/2009  

  Shared Hope International will release a groundbreaking report on child sex trafficking in the United States at the Congressional Human Trafficking Briefing on Capitol Hill hosted by the Human Trafficking Caucus and Victims' Rights Caucus led by Congressman Poe (TX) and Congressman Smith (NJ), long-time advocates for victims protections.
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  asked Founder and President of Shared Hope International, Linda Smith.
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  They are sold every day, every night in every city in America," said Smith. Watch human rights surveillance video instantly here: http://www.sharedhope.org/what/dmst.asp.

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  Published on: 10/20/2009    Last Visited: 10/20/2009  

  Linda Smith (U.S. Congress 1994-98) Speaks at Congressional Hearing on
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  Shared Hope International President and Founder Linda Smith (U.S.
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  Linda
  
  Smith will share stories from her experience working with survivors of sex
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  Before founding Shared Hope International (SHI), Linda Smith served as a
  
  U.S. Congresswoman from Washington State. While still a member of the U.S.
  
  Congress, Linda Smith traveled to Falkland Road in Mumbai, India - one of the
  
  worst brothel districts in the world. The hopeless faces of desperate women
  
  and children forced into prostitution compelled Linda to found SHI. Linda has

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  Published on: 10/23/2009    Last Visited: 10/24/2009  

  "In 2005, Shared Hope International received funding through the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to undertake a comparative examination of the sex trafficking and sex tourism markets with an eye toward identifying demand reduction strategies in four diverse countries: Japan, Jamaica, the Netherlands, and the United States," said The Honorable Linda Smith, founder and president of Shared Hope International, and a former member of Congress. "What we found was that demand is driving the markets and thriving due to the culture of tolerance that exists globally for the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls. Without a buyer of commercial sex from a trafficking victim, there would not be a market...An equally disturbing finding related to the look into America. Expecting to find large numbers of foreign national women trafficked to the United States for commercial sexual exploitation, we were stunned to discover much larger numbers of U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident minors being exploited through the commercial sex industry. American girls of all colors and ages were found stripping and being prostituted in the VIP rooms of gentleman's clubs, prostituted through escort agencies and Internet erotic websites, and controlled by pimps in the streets of Atlanta, Las Vegas, and the Washington, DC-Baltimore corridor."
  
  Ms. Smith added, "The United States is a recognized leader in the anti-trafficking battle and has signed and ratified the UN [Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women and Children], which provides that persons under 18 years of age who are used to perform commercial sex acts are victims of sex trafficking.

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  Published on: 5/11/2009    Last Visited: 5/12/2009  

  The Office of Small, Local and Disadvantaged Business will be headed by Linda Smith, a former executive at FAME Renaissance, an economic-development nonprofit formed after the 1992 L.A. riots. Smith will expand her duties beyond the city's minority-business development center that she has led since October 2007.
  
  Smith said she knows from her former job how hard it can be for small firms to find out about government resources.
  
  "There are programs sprinkled all over the city in various, different departments," Smith said.

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  The guest speaker is Linda Smith, Executive Director, LAMBOC

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  Published on: 5/10/2006    Last Visited: 3/22/2007  

  Biography of The Honorable Linda SmithIn November of 1998, Congressman Linda Smith founded Shared Hope International to fight sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, and to serve the long-term restoration needs of women and children in crisis.
  
  Linda's model for restoration has been revolutionary.SHI builds partnerships with local groups to provide homes and shelters where women and children can live with no time limit.These "Homes of Hope" have a holistic approach to recovery, including educational and job skill training as well as microfinance programs.
  
  To build momentum in the international movement of anti-trafficking, Linda founded the War Against Trafficking Alliance (WATA) in January of 2001.WATA coordinates both regional and international efforts necessary to combat sex trafficking.In February 2003, WATA co-sponsored a World Summit with the U.S. Department of State entitled "Path Breaking Strategies in the Global Fight Against Sex Trafficking".This event brought together non-government and government leaders from 114 nations, all demonstrating a sustained commitment to prosecuting trafficking, providing assistance to victims and building regional strategies to protect the vulnerable from the sex trade.Linda has been a tireless advocate for WATA, speaking at conferences, aiding in the creation of best practices, and lobbying for legislation including the 2005 Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which was signed by President George Bush in January of 2006.
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  Linda's political career began in 1983 as a Washington State Legislator.She won a write-in campaign for Congress in 1994.Critical to Linda's success is her ability to galvanize the grassroots community to action.Her compassionate and uncompromising belief that every individual has dignity has carried her from the halls of Congress to searching out victims in the red light districts around the world.Linda and her husband, Vern reside in Vancouver, Washington and are the proud parents of two and grandparents of six.

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  Published on: 4/15/2007    Last Visited: 4/15/2007  

  Linda SmithPresident
  
  Linda Smith serves as Associate Executive Director of the Business Development Division for FAME Renaissance.FAME Renaissance began operation in1992 and is the economic development arm of 1st AME Church of Los Angeles.It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation engaged in community economic development.Ms. Smith has oversight of all FAME's business development programs, including a small business loan program that provide loans up to $500,000, entrepreneurial training and legal clinic.Ms. Smith also serves as a Director for the FAME Renaissance Equity Fund and is a member of its Investment Review Committee.Additionally, Ms Smith serves as Project Chair for the development of a 48,000 square foot E- Commerce & New Media business incubator offering business assistance and support services to 25 to30 small businesses.
  
  Ms. Smith is a graduate of California State University at Los Angeles where she earned a B.S. Degree in Business Administration and Finance.Ms. Smith has over seventeen years of commercial lending experience, including 5 years of commercial real estate lending.She began her lending career at the Bank of America.Prior to joining FAME Renaissance in December 1993, she was employed at The Bank of California as a Vice President in Private Banking.
  
  Ms. Smith serves on the national board of Urban Financial Services Coalition, formally known as NAUB, and past chair of its Economic Development Committee.She is also active with the local chapter (i.e. L.A. Urban Bankers), where she has served as a board member and chair of Community Involvement.Professional affiliations include- Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, National Council of Negro Women and the Ketchum Downtown YMCA Annual Fund Raising Campaign.She has also served as loan committee member for Pacific Coast Regional State Loan Guarantee Program for small businesses.

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