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The Past 10 Years – And The Next 10

On Thursday, December 1st, 2022, I had a slow-paced day but nothing out of the ordinary. I took my children to school and straightened up the house before turning to work tasks. In the afternoon, I presented as a Network Consultant for the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center. I shared some of the lessons The Avery Center had learned over the past two years and all the ways that survivors can lead in anti-trafficking efforts. In the afternoon, I picked up my children from school, met with a teacher, and drove them around to their after-school activities. Then we went home, let out the dog, and I made dinner. It was uneventful. It was everything I had been working towards for the past decade.

A New Chapter

Megan Lundstrom, M.A. DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH 8 MINUTE READ Hi there, and welcome to The Avery Center. Nearly a year ago, Jessa and I were standing on the corner of the street in downtown Denver on a drizzly fall morning. We had decided to do a mini overnight retreat with a handful of local survivors…

Tough is Not Bad

Megan Lundstrom, M.A. DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH 7 MINUTE READ The other morning, I pulled a coffee cup out of the dishwasher, only to discover it was still dirty – covered with tiny baked-on food particles after going through a full wash cycle with a lack of adequate rinsing before loading. I sighed and set the…