Kate Price Author Talk

Kate Price grew up in the Town of Bloomsburg in central Pennsylvania with her sister and parents. At the insistence of her mother, and through her academic accomplishments, Price escaped the unbroken cycles of poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness, and abuse that had plagued her family for generations. She started a new life in Massachusetts, in pursuit of her master’s and Ph.D. But despite having left this dark world behind, it still kept a firm grip on her.

Kate Price is an associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, a research institute at Wellesley College. She is also an advisor for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center. An internationally recognized expert and lecturer, Price researches the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), particularly domestic child sex trafficking and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). She earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Kate's conversation partner, Jenn Kosakevitch, is the consultant for the NEPA Task Force Against Human Trafficking. Kosakevitch holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from King’s College, with a minor in Sociology. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State Police Academy and served as a Trooper for 25 years before retiring in 2021. During that time, she was the Eastern Human Trafficking Coordinator for the Pennsylvania State Police and a Task Force Officer with the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations specializing in Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Investigations.

Join us for this important Author Talk on January 26, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. Refreshments will be provided.