Leadership and Staff

Kathleen Thurmond, MSW, MBA, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, brings more than 20 years of executive experience in corporate and non-profit management.

Bette Ann Baker, JD, MSN is a nurse and attorney. Originally from New England, she received her bachelor’s degree in English and Nursing from Simmons College. Bette then worked in rural Eastern Kentucky running a Home Health Agency and later was

Jose Alfaro is a consultant and lived experience expert on domestic child sex trafficking, public speaker, author, advocate and activist. He has worked with several anti-human trafficking organizations around the globe to spread awareness on trafficking, specifically within the LGBTQ+

Rhonelle Bruder, MSc, is a Ph.D. student at The University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. As a doctoral student in Social and Behavioural Sciences, Rhonelle applies an intersectional and critical lens to her research on gender violence

Abigail English, JD, is a lawyer, researcher, and advocate for the rights of vulnerable young people. She is director of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, a nonprofit organization working nationally to support laws and policies that promote

Jason Spees, MSN, MaOM, APRN, L.Ac, FNP-C is an alumnus from the University of Texas in Austin School of Nursing where he served as a clinical instructor in graduate and undergraduate level courses. He is a board certified and licensed family

Lauren Frey is currently a Foreign Affairs Officer for the U.S. Department of States’ Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office). She works on the International Programs Team and oversees the management of TIP Office foreign assistance

Susie Baldwin, MD, MPH, Past President of the Board of Directors, is a Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking. She is a preventive medicine physician who works as the Chief of Medical Community Engagement at the Los Angeles County Department of Public

Dr. Tonya Chaffee, MD, MPH, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, at the University of California, San Francisco. She is Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Support, Advocacy and Resource Center (CASARC) the referral center for children and adolescent

Angela Guanzon is an advocate, consultant, and survivor of labor trafficking. She serves as an Advisory Board member for Freedom United and she’s also a member of the CAST Survivor Leadership Program where she serves in a leadership role to

Stacey Mihaly is a seasoned marketing and development leader who has a long career history of driving growth for global, national, regional and local nonprofits. Her expertise lies in the areas of strategic planning, fundraising planning and execution, communications and

Amanda M. Stylianou, PhD, LCSW, is HEAL Trafficking's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a nationally recognized expert in the anti-violence field. She has a decade of nonprofit leadership experience working at Safe Horizon, Rutgers Health, and Easterseals.

Nani Cuadrado, MSPAS, PA-C, is the Director of Education for HEAL Trafficking. She began working as an emergency medicine physician assistant (PA) for Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) 20 years ago and began to realize the prevalence of homelessness and