Building the Support Network for Sex Trafficking Survivors with Kat Wehunt

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon talks with fellow Jefferson Award Recipient, Kat Wehunt. Kat is a leading voice in bringing awareness to the human trafficking movement. A survivor, Kat shares facts about human trafficking that may surprise you. Her non-profit, The Formation Project, serves as a community-centered organization for survivors of trafficking, providing them with support, understanding, and empowerment.

Please note that this episode contains mature content and is not suitable for young children.

Thank you to our guest, Kat Wehunt, Founder of The Formation Project

Credits:

Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Kat Wehunt

Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Researcher: Valerie Hoback

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. So excited you're with me today and I am going to give you a little
0:09.3	content warning right off the top. This is a very important conversation that we are having,
0:16.0	but it is a conversation about human trafficking. I think it's information that adults need
0:21.4	to hear and that adults need to take to their own children, but I also think this is not
0:26.5	the most appropriate topic for young children to be hearing on this podcast. So I hope you'll
0:32.3	stick around and listen and then take it and apply what works for you. We're going to be chatting
0:37.0	with human trafficking, survivor and activist cat we hunt. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon,
0:46.5	and here's where it gets interesting. I'm really excited to welcome Cat to the show today.
0:54.9	Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Cat and I met at the Jefferson Awards. Congratulations,
1:01.2	again, on your win. Likewise, thank you. Thank you. I was really taking with your story. I loved
1:08.1	hearing your speech at the Jefferson Awards, and I wondered if you could just give everybody who's
1:14.9	listening a little overview of your story and the work that you do. Well, my name's Cat We hunt,
1:20.8	and I am a survivor of familial sex trafficking. I was trafficked from the ages of 14 to 17 by
1:28.3	an older relative, all while living at home with my parents were both in law enforcement. And I
1:34.6	didn't really identify as a victim or survivor of human trafficking until many years later,
1:40.8	when I started working in the gender-based violence space, I was working in a rape crisis
1:46.1	that are sitting through their training to be a victim advocate the first time that I heard someone
1:51.7	train on familial sex trafficking or human trafficking. And I immediately was like, wow,
1:58.2	that's what's happening. And so I now run a nonprofit and we're survivor led, and I have lots of
2:06.1	other survivor leaders that work on staff with me, and we provide direct services to survivors
2:11.4	human trafficking. What was it like when you had that realization when you were like, this is what
2:17.7	happened to me? Because of course, you had never forgotten what happened to you. It's impossible
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