MPI Chapter Meeting: Your Role Against Human Trafficking + Impactful Discussions

Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 19, 2024, to join us at the Farnam Hotel in Omaha for our first education event of the fall! 

Following the Anti-Human Trafficking presentation, we will break into groups to discuss various hot topics in the meetings and events industry.  If there is a hot topic you’d like to discuss, send the topic to Felicia Littky (flittky@icma.org) and Tiffany Conrad (tconrad@fortdodgeiowa.org).

MPI has great resources to raise our awareness of Human Trafficking.  Be sure to check them out!

Speaker: Samantha Wiener, PhD student - Political Science

Samantha Wiener is a graduate student at UNL, where she is pursuing her doctorate in Political Science. Samantha, who graduated from the University of Minnesota with distinction in May 2017 specializes in American policitcs and political psychology. She conducts research examining the role of emotion in judements about immigration and evaluations of sex trafficking surviviors. Samantha serves as a program evaluation consultant for a number of Nebraska agencies including the Banisters Leadership Academy and the Nebraska ACLU and works as a jury consultant for several agencies. 

Current Event Schedule

Registration opens: 10:30 am
Event begins: 11:00 am
Event concludes: 1:45 pm