In this episode of Consider Before Consuming, we sit down with Louis Greak, a training specialist with truckers against trafficking.

Louis has dedicated the last decade to combating human trafficking,

working with the transportation industry to identify and report trafficking situations. In our conversation,

he shares the realities of trafficking, the tactics traffickers use, how everyday individuals can play a role in

prevention, and the importance of reducing demand to stop exploitation before it starts.

With that, let's jump into the conversation.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Welcome to the Consider Before Consuming podcast, Louie. It's an honor to have you here today. Can you share a bit about your background and how you became involved in the fight against human trafficking?

Yeah. So I think how I became involved in the fight against human trafficking was a little of unusual route. My background by

trade is in law enforcement and military. I spent 20 years in the military. I spent a significant

time in civilian law enforcement, mostly in Colorado. And my main focus was on

suspicious deaths, death investigations, major crimes, forensics, and spent the

majority of kind of the first part of my career pursuing that aspect of law enforcement.

But probably about maybe now going on 12, 13 years ago, I had a former military buddy of mine tell me about the issue of human trafficking.

I had not heard it in my police academies.

It was not talked about in the military.

We didn't focus on it in law enforcement.

And so I was surprised.

I was shocked.

I had no idea that this issue was going on.

And introduced me to an organization that was supporting other nonprofits, other NGOs and law enforcement internationally as it relates to human trafficking, finding ways to collaborate, support each other as it relates to this issue.

And I was sold. They were looking for

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