Human Trafficking Research Lab @Millikin

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