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Courtney Dow: NightLight Atlanta
12/15/2014 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Courtney Dow, MEd, CRC, Director of NightLight Atlanta, is a graduate of Auburn University with a Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling and previously worked at the United Nations and Wellspring Living. Courtney has assisted victims of trafficking from the United States, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, India, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Turkey, and Uganda and is the founder of NightLight Atlanta. In 2012, she received the honor of being awarded Auburn University’s Young Alumni of the Year Award. Courtney has worked with NightLight International since 2005
NightLight International
NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community transformation.
The Vision…To offer intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to enable them to discover their dignity, and to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and work in their community.
The Mission…To build relationships and provide hope, intervention, rescue and assistance to women and children exploited in the sex industry by offering alternative employment, vocational opportunities, life-skills training and physical, emotional and spiritual development to women seeking freedom from sexual exploitation. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry.