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The Human Trafficking Research Lab (HTRL) at Millikin University was established in 2018 to transform undergraduate performance learning projects into cutting edge human trafficking research. The HTRL team at Millikin University conducts policy relevant research on human trafficking within the United States and internationally. We are the only undergraduate research lab focused on human trafficking in the state of Illinois and one of a handful in the entire United States, making this applied research experience truly unique for Millikin students. Through the  Human Trafficking Research Lab,  we formulate human trafficking research at Millikin by training students to collect, analyze, and write up data results and disseminate these findings to the academic and local community. At Millikin University, our mission is to prepare students for professional success, democratic citizenship in a global environment, and a personal life of meaning and value and the HTRL@Millikin builds on t
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Research Brief: Updated CIHTTF Trainings in 2022 and 2023

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We recently calculated and compiled a new Human Trafficking Research Lab Brief with findings from trainings conducted by the Central Illinois Human Trafficking Task Force (CIHTTF) members in 2022 and 2023. We have been tracking and mapping human trafficking trainings since 2019 and it was really interesting to see the progress over the last five years! Thanks to all of the CIHTTF members who conducted and reported their trainings, we could not report this data without you all! You can read the updated brief here . We plan on providing an overall analysis for the trainings from 2020-2024 in our final assessment for the CIHTTF grant so stay tuned for more information showcasing the impact of the CIHTTF. 
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Celebrating human trafficking research on World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

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President Reynolds featured the Human Trafficking Research Lab as one of the four performance learning opportunities at Millikin University in his state of the university speech last May. This got lab members thinking about the uniqueness of the lab in the United States and the opportunities we provide for hands on research with a complex topic topic such as human trafficking. So the HTRL's newest research assistant Maggie Schrage's first job assignment was conducting an investigation on other research entities focused on human trafficking around the United States. Here is what she found: I was tasked with compiling data on other academic institutions conducting research on human trafficking. After many hours of researching and contacting universities across the United States, I located many legal clinics that help survivors of human trafficking with legal issues in the United States but there were fewer that focused on academic research. I found that the Human Trafficking Rese
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