Författare: Donna Sabella

Mary de Chesnay, Ph D, RN, PMH-BC, FAAN, is a psychiatric-mental health nurse and applied anthropologist with 50 years of experience as a therapist, teacher, and researcher. She maintained a private practice and held academic positions at all ranks, retiring as Professor Emerita. She left the deanship at Duquesne University to become the first holder of the Jean Bushman Chair at Seattle University and focused on vulnerable populations. She worked with about 300 survivors of child sexual abuse, including those trafficked for the sex trade. She is a well-known and respected author and book editor.   Donna Sabella, MEd, MSN, Ph D, CRNP, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, faculty at UMass Amherst College of Nursing where she served as the Seedworks Endowed Associate Professor of Social Justice in the College of Nursing and is presently the Executive Director of Delaware’s Anti- Trafficking Action Council. She was one of the first nurses to offer courses and a certificate in human trafficking at various universities. She has numerous publications and presentations on human trafficking. She also conducted groups for prostituted and trafficked women in the Philadelphia Prison System, was a co-founder and first Director for Dawn’s Place, a residential treatment program for trafficked women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a co-founder and Associate Editor for the  Journal of Human Trafficking.