How Funding Cuts Are Impacting Anti-Trafficking Efforts With Rev. Dr. Sandra Morgan

Jun 20, 2025

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How do federal and foreign aid cuts impact anti-trafficking work, both directly and indirectly?

In this episode, we talk with Rev. Dr. Sandra Morgan from Vanguard University about how global aid and domestic budget cuts are affecting efforts to fight human trafficking around the world, both individually and systemically.

Dr. Morgan shares how collaboration, trust, and elevating smaller organizations are key to a sustained fight against trafficking, and how to foster these practices. We also discuss how churches can step in to fill critical gaps and why training the next generation of advocates matters.

It’s an honest look at the challenges, and where hope and resilience are still showing up.

Listen in to learn more :

23:54 - Tool to Evaluate Collaboration: Visible Network Labs

26:09 - To Change the World by James Davison Hunter

27:59 - Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate at Vanguard

More from Dr. Morgan:

Ending Human Trafficking Podcast

Ending Human Trafficking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today

Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanderbilt University

BIO:

Rev. Dr. Sandra Morgan is Executive Director of Vanguard University’s Global Center for Women and Justice (GCWJ). As an educator, a nurse, and an ordained Assemblies of God minister, she is recognized globally for her expertise in combating human trafficking and working to end violence against women and children. She hosts the Ending Human Trafficking podcast and is co-author of IVP’s Ending Human Trafficking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today.

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