Our Purpose
STEE exists to confront exploitation and gender-based violence at every level: personal, cultural, and systemic. To unify our diverse expertise of academic, professional, and lived experience, we have designed culturally appropriate, trauma-informed strategies that reflect the realities of survivors and communities most impacted by inequity.
Our work is dedicated to dismantling harmful systems, shifting the narrative to prioritize African American populations, challenge laws, rewrite policies that perpetuate exploitation, and build pathways toward long-term healing and empowerment.
Our Commitments
We mobilize to:
Promote racial and social justice at every layer of response.
Ensure culturally relevant, survivor-informed services and community messages.
Challenge harmful policies and legal systems that sustain exploitation.
Advocate for policy reforms and systemic change.
Celebrate the wisdom of experiencers as a central aspect of leadership and community healing.
Our Vision
We believe in a future where commercial sexual exploitation is no longer tolerated, and where survivors lead efforts to heal, dismantle and transform systems. Through STEE, we are cultivating new models of collective care where coordinated service delivery, mutual accountability, and survivor leadership replace fragmented systems and isolated responses.
Together, we are building something more than a partnership; we are shaping a movement. A movement rooted in justice, anchored in healing, and carried forward by the voices and leadership of survivors and communities who refuse to be silenced.
