Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd



Meet Rachel Lloyd

There are very few well-written books about Human Trafficking -- This is one of them -- Enjoy!

RACHEL LLOYD earned her BA in psychology from Marymount Manhattan College and her MA in applied urban anthropology from the City College of New York. She is the founder and executive director of GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Reebok Human Rights Award.
Lloyd is an Ashoka Fellow and a Prime Mover Fellow, and she was a leading advocate for the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act, which made New York the first state to protect, not prosecute, sexually exploited children. She lives in New York City.

 

GIRLS LIKE US

          By Rachel Lloyd

Girls Like Us is an absolute masterpiece of tragic self-discovery.

Lloyd is a superstar mentor who smashes the ridiculous prostitute nametag of shame to bits, as the shame belongs to the exploiters, not the exploited.

 She ignites the truth buried deep within girls like us and burns up the lies that keep us trapped in the life far too long. 

Not only has she escaped her own trauma-drama, she’s teaching young ladies caught in our massively-crippled justice system self-sufficiency, honor, and self-worth.

Imagine being sent on a missions trip from the UK to America, straight into Spanish Harlem, poorly-paid, alone, and sans a High School Diploma.  No big deal, right? Not for saucy, spirited Lloyd. She takes night classes, obtains her GED and is awarded a full scholarship to college. By age twenty-three the young Lloyd stands at the helm of the wildly-successful GEMS, the only non-profit in New York State designed to serve commercially- exploited girls.

For those of you who still think the fairy-tale ending Julia Roberts experienced in Pretty Woman is the best we could ever hope for, think again!

True success? Real Freedom? Check out Rachel Lloyd,

at the White House shaking things up,

demanding respect and making a real difference

for Girls, Like Us.

Go, girl, Go!