Laurel Botsford is a Communications Professional, Convention Speaker, Conference Organizer, Advocate, Presenter and Community Mover and Shaker. She is focused on building into the fabric of everyday life the skills of preventing human trafficking from the ground level up. Beginning as a trained volunteer for Shared Hope International in 2014 to Founder of Wisdom International: Help2Others in 2018, her commitment has only deepened to Prevent human trafficking Before Harm occurs. She collaborates with Survivors, Tribal Leaders, anti-Human Trafficking coalitions, and key partners against human trafficking. An invitation by the FBI lead to her graduating their Citizen’s Academy in 2019. In her other life, Laurel is a trained Alternative Health Practitioner, author of two books on Consciousness and has a BA in languages. Half of her life was spent ‘studying by living’ abroad among varied cultures and mindsets that blend into a rich understanding of human nature she finds useful today. She is the Youth Activities Director since 2017 and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary Club of Terra Linda, a Core-Member of the Drug Awareness Program with Elks Lodge #1108 in San Rafael, and is a Board Member of the Friends of the Sausalito Library since 2012.