Turning A Million Eyes To Save Lives
"Turning A Million Eyes To Save Lives" is a podcast co-production of Innocents at Risk and Studio C. Since 2005, Innocents at Risk has been working to raise awareness about the horrors of child trafficking in America and around the world. In 2008, Innocents at Risk launched the Flight Attendant Initiative to train flight attendants, who are our first line of defense in spotting and reporting situations of trafficking, and a year later, Innocents at Risk founder Deborah Sigmund took the Flight Attendant Initiative to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). An official protocol was established with DHS after several meetings that included Deborah and senior American Airlines flight attendant Sandra Fiorini. That protocol, called Blue Lightning, is used to this day. Innocents at Risk conducts educational outreach programs through churches, clubs, organizations, schools, and embassies, and now this podcast. Andy Miles hosts this monthly series which seeks to educate and motivate listeners through a series of conversations with flight attendants and passengers, hotel employees, transportation officials, government officeholders, and anti-trafficking activists who are making a difference and helping to save the lives of women and children. We'll also hear the real-life stories of survivors of human trafficking and, using the DHS Blue Campaign Training, we'll help everyday citizens be able to identify red-flag situations and how to report them.
Episodes
On this episode, Innocents at Risk Founder and Director Deborah Sigmund talks to Michael Camal, who currently serves as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign, the department’s national public awareness campaign to combat human trafficking. In this role, Michael leads the Blue Lightning Initiative (BLI) to address human trafficking within the aviation i...
On Friday, May 27th, Innocents at Risk conducted an interactive workshop at Washington Global Public Charter School. Founded in 2015, Washington Global is a Title 1 middle school that provides students from at-risk areas of Washington, D.C., a rigorous and safe learning environment.
During the workshop, Innocents at Risk Founder Deborah Sigmund and Intern Joanna Lundquist, a recent g...
On this fourth episode of "Turning A Million Eyes To Save Lives," we hear Innocents at Risk Founder and Director Deborah Sigmund in conversation with Matt Osborne, Director of International Operations for Operation Underground Railroad, also known as O.U.R., a privately run organization founded by Tim Ballard in 2013 to rescue children from sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. O.U.R. ha...
On this third episode of the series we hear from Deborah Sigmund, Founder and Director of Innocents at Risk; Callahan Walsh, Executive Director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC); and Cheryl Csiky, Executive Director of In Our Backyard. We talk about efforts made by all three organizations in combating human trafficking and child exploitation at and around the...
On this second episode, we hear from Innocents at Risk Founder and Director Deborah Sigmund, and Nancy Rivard, president of Airline Ambassadors International (AAI). Nancy founded AAI to provide for orphans and vulnerable children in 1996 while working as a flight attendant for American Airlines. It is the only relief and development organization representing the airline industry. Airline Am...
Deborah Sigmund & Sandra Fiorini talk about Innocents at Risk's Flight Attendant Initiative and more
On this debut episode, we hear from Innocents at Risk founder and director Deborah Sigmund and retired flight attendant Sandra Fiorini, who for many years has worked closely with Innocents at Risk in training aviation industry personnel and reporting suspected incidents of child trafficking. We'll hear about that work and several of those incidents in our conversation.
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