New Buddies New Life (NFNL) pronounces the 2022 ProtectHER Award Recipients: Dr. Nissi Hamilton, a survivor, chief and professional in human trafficking; Lynn McBee, a philanthropic and management drive in Dallas and longtime champion for ladies and ladies; and Santander Shopper USA Basis, which collaborates with and invests in organizations that present optimistic social and cultural change. The award recipients will likely be honored on the Friday, November 4, New Buddies New Life Annual Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., on the Hyatt Regency Dallas.
Julia Ormond, a British Emmy® award-winning stage, movie, and tv actress who has been combating human trafficking for the reason that Nineties, will headline the luncheon, co-chaired by Katherine Wynne, Kristi Sherrill Hoyl and Melissa Sherrill Martin and honorary co-chairs and Dallas energy couple, Matrice Ellis-Kirk and Ambassador Ron Kirk.
ProtectHER Award Recipient Dr. Nissi Hamilton, a survivor, chief, and professional in human trafficking, is a winner of the Basis for Enchancment of Justice’s 2022 Paul H. Chapman Award for her advocacy within the passing of the Texas Good Act which was signed into regulation in 2021. This laws supplies safety and assets to trafficking victims and survivors. As a survivor herself, Dr. Hamilton has turn into a passionate chief within the nationwide anti-trafficking motion. She is a sexual abuse counselor and CEO of Nissi’s Community Inc., a nonprofit which goals to “present holistic assist for kids of pimps, prostitutes, and victims of human trafficking in order that they’ll have a chance to steer wholesome and profitable lives.” Her push for legislative reform demonstrates the facility of survivors to impact optimistic change in our justice system. In October, Dr. Hamilton was additionally acknowledged by The Board of the Basis for Enchancment of Justice on the group’s annual awards banquet in Atlanta, Georgia. Moreover, she is the recipient of the Nationwide Black Prosecutors Affiliation “Profiles in Braveness Award.”
ProtectHER Award Recipient Lynn McBee, a longtime neighborhood volunteer, chief, and philanthropist in addition to a biochemist, has been a champion of ladies and younger ladies all through her profession. She serves because the CEO of the Younger Ladies’s Preparatory Community which helps single-gender, faculty preparatory, public training giving younger girls the educational and management abilities to realize success. She first started in an advisory function at Younger Ladies’s Preparatory Community after working three many years at New England Bio Labs in Boston as a analysis scientist. Her board service in Dallas spans dozens of various nonprofit teams and organizations. She has labored to fight home violence by the Household Place, mentored younger girls in service and management with the Junior League of Dallas, and guarded younger ladies in danger by her management with the Letot Middle serving teenage girls who’re homeless or victims of trafficking.
In January, McBee accepted an invite from Mayor Eric Johnson to function town’s workforce improvement czar. She is the recipient of quite a few awards for her extraordinary management and repair.
ProtectHER Award Recipient Santander Shopper USA Basis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity established in 2004 that works to supply optimistic social and cultural change by 5 philanthropic pillars that deal with: financial mobility; instructional mobility; bodily mobility; social and racial justice; and sustainability, disaster and catastrophe. With a $50 million greenback dedication to digital and monetary inclusion and $10 million in grant commitments in its house communities, Santander Shopper helps organizations that make a measurable influence. Since 2018, Santander has partnered with New Buddies New Life, offering transformative monetary and volunteer assist to assist take away the authorized and financial obstacles confronted by intercourse trafficking victims.
NFNL Luncheon Speaker Julia Ormond, greatest identified for her award-winning profession as an actress and producer, can be a longtime activist in opposition to human trafficking, selling worldwide consciousness in her function as the primary and former United Nations Workplace on Medicine and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador In opposition to Trafficking and Slavery. Ormond is the founding father of the nonprofit ASSET Marketing campaign which is the supply of the worldwide laws the Transparency in Provide Chains Regulation that requires main companies to publicly disclose their insurance policies to stop human trafficking and compelled labor in product provide chains.
A few of Ormond’s best-known movie work could also be seen in her starring roles in Legends of the Fall, Sabrina, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Che. On the small display screen, Ormond acquired an Emmy® Award in 2010 for her function within the HBO film Temple Grandin and one in 1997 as government producer of Calling the Ghosts: A Story About Rape, Conflict and Ladies. In 2012 she was nominated for an Emmy® for her recurring function on Mad Males. She will be able to most just lately be seen in her sequence common function in The Strolling Lifeless; World Past, and within the still-to-be-released Reminisce.
“We’re excited to welcome our speaker and honor our award recipients, who collectively not solely shine a light-weight on an trade that’s victimizing 25 million folks world wide, but additionally present transformative contributions as advocates, volunteers and donors,” mentioned Bianca Davis, CEO, New Buddies New Life. “We thank every of you as you ‘stand for her’ and assist us restore hope to so many trapped on this horrific trade.”
Underwriting sponsorship alternatives start at $2,500. A restricted variety of particular person tickets will likely be launched nearer to the date and can start at $250 every.
To order your sponsorship or seats, please go to www.newfriendsnewlife.org/luncheon, electronic mail [email protected] or contact Senior Improvement Director Priya Murphy at 214-217-8652.
Luncheon media sponsors are The Dallas Morning Information and PaperCity.
About New Buddies New Life: Based in Dallas, Texas, in 1998, New Buddies New Life (NFNL) restores and empowers trafficked and sexually exploited teen ladies, girls and their youngsters, and drives consciousness of the problem and its prevalence. By offering entry to training, job coaching, interim monetary help, psychological well being, and religious assist, New Buddies New Life helps girls and their youngsters overcome backgrounds of abuse, dependancy, poverty, and restricted alternatives. In 2021, NFNL served 312 members. NFNL additionally educates the neighborhood and works to eradicate the epidemic of human trafficking by advocacy, legislative reform and strategic partnerships that deal with systemic causes. In 2018, NFNL opened a drop-in Youth Useful resource Middle (YRC) in partnership with the Workplace of the Governor to serve trafficked and high-risk teen ladies. Since its opening, now we have served 546 ladies. In 2015, NFNL organized its Males’s Advocacy Group to interact males within the battle in opposition to intercourse trafficking and exploitation. For extra data, go to http://www.newfriendsnewlife.org.
