Stephanie Bandoo - The Center for Hope & Healing

While pursuing her doctorate, Stephanie began her journey at the Center for Hope and Healing as a Healing Corps volunteer, providing hotline and medical advocacy to survivors of sexual assault. She later joined the Lowell Commercial Sexual Exploitation Taskforce as a research fellow and has since expanded her passion for working with at-risk youth and survivors of human trafficking. In her former role as an Advocate/counselor, she provided individual counseling and psycho-educational groups to young survivors and families navigating difficult life challenges in different settings. In her current role as the Lowell Ending Trafficking of Youth Project Manager, she is dedicated to creating trauma-informed and survivor-centered practices that support young people and uplift their voices while building/restructuring systems for youth in black and brown communities.