PIO awarded for combating human trafficking |
An Indian-American woman has been honoured with a Presidential award by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for her extraordinary contribution towards combating human trafficking in Houston. Minal Patel Davis, Special Advisor on Human Trafficking to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, received the `Presidential Medal for Combating Human Trafficking` in the White House recently at a ceremony also attended by President Donald Trump. Davis said it was unbelievable. “Myparents came here from India. I was the first one in my family born in the United States, so to end up in the Mayor`s office a few years ago, and then to now end up in the White House, it was unbelievable ” Appointed in July 2015, Ms. Davis has made a local impact on human trafficking in America`s fourth largest city from a policy-level perspective and by helped in advancing systems change. She is currently implementing Mayor Turner`s Anti-Human Trafficking StrategicPlan, which is the first comprehensive municipal response to human trafficking by a US city. She is a past speaker at the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit and recently travelled to India and Canada at the request of the State Department to discuss municipal leadership in trafficking with the government officials.
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