Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (ret.) | Modern Day Slavery and Trafficking Fellow and Robina Fellow, Gilder Lerhman Center, Yale University
Former Prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State, 2012-2018
Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca coordinated U.S. government activities in the global fight against contemporary forms of slavery as head of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons during the Obama Administration. As one of the United States’ most decorated federal prosecutors, Ambassador C.deBaca updated the post-Civil War statutes and the 13th Amendment to develop the “victim centered approach” to modern slavery, which has become the global standard for combating human trafficking. This talk examines the ways the prosecution of slavery builds from the southwestern values and history that shaped him and this region.
