Scaling Laborlink to identify risks of modern day slavery.
Runner-up winner: Laborlink
Project Manager / Creative Lead
Fall 2015 – Spring 2016
16 million people are in forced labor in the private economy worldwide. Half of these men and women are in debt bondage working to repay a debt that they have no hope of repaying. The second-highest number of victims of forced labor are in the Asia-Pacific region.
To better understand the underlying risks of forced labor in this region, I led the design for a new Laborlink Trafficking Module prototype as a part of our winning proposal to the Partnership for Freedom’s Rethink Supply Chains challenge. The $50,000 funding from the challenge enabled our team to launch a dedicated Laborlink survey and a new community-based methodology to help companies surface the risk of forced labor in their supply chains.
This project has served as a catalyst for Laborlink that has continued to expand with partnerships with Target, Vodafone, Amnesty International, and the Responsible Business Alliance.
Key program milestones
Video: Laborlink Trafficking Module
2016 — As a Rethink Supply Chains finalist, I led the design of our winning prototype that would become the new Laborlink Forced Labor Index Survey.
2017 – Designed new survey program materials that were deployed in India and Nepal in partnership with Target, Vodafone, and Amnesty International.
2017 – Supported Target in developing a shared communications plan to promote their partnership with Laborlink, including a publication on Target’s website.
View the 2018 Laborlink Forced Labor Report
Report: Laborlink Detects Risk of Forced Labor
2018 — Developed and designed ELEVATE’s first report on forced labor, evaluating Laborlink’s new approaches and sharing key learnings from the program launches in India and Nepal.
Video: Journey of the Worker
2019 — Creative lead for the Responsible Workplace Program, which successfully received $1M from the Walmart Foundations to develop a scalable approach for engaging and educating migrant workers of the forced labor risks in Malaysian factories.
2020 – Wrote the video brief for 'Journey of the Worker' with the goal to share the personal stories of migrant workers in Malaysia factories - all participants in the RBA's Responsible Workplace Program.
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