April Casillas – A survivor of child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. April served 8 years in the Navy as a combat trauma corpsman and was a volunteer with the OCHTTF. Today, April is a residential support advocate at Thatiana’s Home for sex trafficking survivors at The Salvation Army OC and runs her own nonprofit, Keeping Every Girl Free, rooted in trauma-informed care and restorative justice. Through mentorship, collaboration, and survivor-informed training, she cultivates spaces where healing begins, and communities rise.

Shari Ho – A survivor of labor trafficking who was sold by her poverty-stricken family into domestic servitude at the age of 7 in Taiwan and eventually was brought to the U.S. where her forced labor work continued into the trafficker’s family business in Irvine. Today, Shari helps co-lead the OCHTTF’s international survivor support group and runs her own successful home daycare business. She’s so good at taking care of children, drawing from her own experience of child maltreatment, that she continues to have a wait list of parents. Her dream is to one day open a daycare to support children of survivors of human trafficking.

Martha Trujillo – A survivor of sex trafficking from Orange County whose story touches foster care, gang involvement and incarceration. Today, Martha is a housing supervisor for the Youth Connected Program at Orangewood Foundation and runs her own nonprofit, Full Circle Orange, a mentorship program dedicated to guiding at-risk youth towards brighter futures. Martha also recently earned her master’s degree in criminology. Martha has been the keynote survivor speaker for the OCHTTF’s Know More, Do Better youth prevention conference for January’s National Human Trafficking Prevention Month for the past two years and will return again into its fourth year.