Jessie Brunner, MA

In her role with the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab, Jessie guides the Lab’s strategy and maintains key relationships and connections with the global anti-trafficking community. She also serves as Associated Director of Strategy and Program Development and Director of Human Trafficking Research at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University. Jessie is currently working on several multidisciplinary, community-engaged research projects, including enhancing contract and payment structures to combat forced labor in tuna fisheries and – as co-Principal Investigator of the Re:Structure Lab – investigating how supply chains and business models can be re-imagined to promote equitable labor standards and worker rights. Her work is motivated by the desire to understand how these forms of abuse are linked to systemic inequities, and in turn, how policies can be designed to curb them while promoting fairness and justice.