Lauren Hersh

Founding Co-Chair and National Director

World Without Exploitation

Lauren Hersh

Lauren Hersh, J.D. is a Founding Co-Chair and National Director of World Without Exploitation, a movement working towards creating a world where no person is bought, sold, or exploited. Lauren is an internationally recognized lawyer, activist, educator and writer working to combat violence against women and girls in schools, online and in the legal arena. Lauren’s work to combat gender violence began at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office where she prosecuted a wide range of cases impacting women and girls. Realizing that sex trafficking cases were going unrecognized, Lauren led the charge in 2009 to create one of the first Sex Trafficking Units in the United States. She received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. Lauren believes that lasting change requires legal reform and meaningful community engagement. Lauren sees visionary leadership as “the ability to bring together the right partners to build a movement, create a shift in policy and perspective, see gaps and holes and strategically fill them.”’