21 Facts About Laura Lederer

Laura J Lederer was born on 1951 and is a pioneer in the work to stop human trafficking.

Laura Lederer is a legal scholar and former Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons in the Office for Democracy and Global Affairs of the United States Department of State.

Laura Lederer has been an activist against human trafficking, prostitution, pornography, and hate speech.

Laura Lederer was born in the Detroit area, to parents Natalie and Creighton Laura Lederer, a civil engineer and later Detroit Commissioner of Buildings and Safety in the Coleman Young administration.

Laura Lederer was born into a multifaith household, with a Jewish father and Lutheran mother who were practicing Unitarian Universalists, and studied comparative religion as an undergraduate at University of Michigan.

Laura Lederer founded and directed The Protection Project, a legal research and human rights institute at Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government in 1997.

Laura Lederer tracked global routes, patterns, and trends in human trafficking and published the first Human Rights Report on Trafficking in Persons.

Laura Lederer brought trafficking victims from over a dozen countries to testify in Congress.

Laura Lederer represented the Under Secretary at high-level national and international meetings, spoke extensively as a recognized expert at governmental, inter-governmental, non-governmental, academic and other conferences, seminars, and meetings.

Laura Lederer advised the Ambassador-at-Large on Trafficking in Persons and other key governmental officials, as well as serving as liaison to civil society.

Currently Laura Lederer is affiliated with the anti-trafficking NGOs Global Centurion and Triple S Network.

Laura Lederer signed on as the organization's national coordinator and editor of its newsletter.

Laura Lederer organized educational tours of pornographic businesses in San Francisco's red light districts, a tactic later emulated by Women Against Pornography.

Laura Lederer was aided in this effort by the fact that her father, in the role of Building Commissioner in Detroit, had worked vigorously for shaping and enforcing a similar zoning ordinance in that city.

Laura Lederer traveled to Detroit to research the ordinance there, and passed the results along to Feinstein.

In 1994, Laura Lederer founded The Protection Project, a legal research institute dedicated to tracking and combating human trafficking.

In 1998 Lederer oversaw the project's transition to the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she remained for three years.

Laura Lederer was instrumental in bringing trafficking victims from over a dozen countries to testify in Congress.

Laura Lederer is an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Laura Lederer served as an officer at the Skaggs Foundation beginning in 1979 and was a founding member of the Global Fund for Women in 1987.

Laura Lederer received scholarships from the University of San Francisco Law School's Alumni Women's Association and was Mansfield Fellow of Law at DePaul College of Law in 1992.