Jess Torres
Lived Experienced Expert, Organizer, Policy & Community Development Specialist
Jess Torres (they/them), currently resides in Long Beach, CA and is a Trans Indigenous writer, educator and organizer dedicated to community building, direct action and policy work for the marginalized and criminalized. They are of Lenca lineage born on the stretch of earth now called El Salvador; displaced on unceded Matinecock land in so-called NYC as an “undocumented” immigrant for twenty five years. Jess is a systems-impacted youth with lived experience of child trafficking. They have fifteen years of advocacy in the anti-trafficking and sex worker rights movement, including leadership roles with: the Little Market, the former Survivor Leadership Program Coordinator at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), and currently serves as an independent consultant with various federal and state agencies and as an Expert Trainer and Communications Specialist with Rising Worldwide in addition to being an active Consultant for the Southern CA region, with the Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking (PACT) Project.