Meet the Executive Team!
David Batstone – Fearless Leader & Co-founder
Dave is the President of Not For Sale. A professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco, he is also founder and president of Right Reality, an international social venture firm. Batstone has authored seven books, the two most recent being Not For Sale (HarperOne) and Saving the Corporate Soul (Jossey-Bass). He was a member of the founding team of Business 2.0 magazine and served six years as executive editor of Sojourners magazine and founder of the SojoMail e-zine. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and SPIN. He is the recipient of two national journalist awards and was named National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco for his work in technology and ethics. During the 1980s, Batstone founded a non-governmental agency dedicated to economic development. In Not For Sale, David oversees the strategic and financial opportunities, growth, and direction of NFSC. He often represents Not For Sale during the Stop Paying for Slavery Tour and co-teaches the entrepreneur course content in NFS Academy. And yes, Bruce Willis does have a striking resemblance to Dave.
Mark Wexler – Executive Director & Co-founder
Wexler found his vocational direction while working on the streets of Durban, South Africa with Umthombo Street Children; his time in Southern Africa provided the learning space to help build the conceptual and material framework to combat modern-day slavery. Along with Batstone and Bazan he is a partner in the Right Reality Fund, which invests at the intersection of for-profit and non-profit industries using a disciplined, social-oriented approach. Right Reality’s strategy is designed to deliver for-profit returns while creating substantial social impact. As Executive Director, Mark manages the productivity of department directors. He coordinates and sustains strategic partnership agreements with other institutions and co-teaches the investigator course content in the NFS Academy. The Academies provide tools to individuals and institutions to participate in the process of ending modern-day slavery by engaging through the documentation of cases, participation in direct advocacy, building effective entrepreneurial business and a reliable marketplace for survivors.
Kique Bazan – International Investment Director
Dr. Enrique “Kique” Bazan is a longtime advocate for justice. Enrique has years of experience working on the front lines with children’s rights organizations, doing research with gangs in El Salvador and San Francisco, connecting the next generation of social entrepreneurs with organizations internationally, and developing groundbreaking strategies that unite businesses, non-profits and communities for the common good. Enrique contributed his research about gangs to the book “Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities.” In Not For Sale, he implements and oversees high asset donor relationships, as well as overseeing all international projects and investments. Kique is also a partner in Right Reality and has the best accent of anyone on staff.
Meet the National Staff!
Allison Trowbridge – Director of Communications & Marketing
Allison manages the beloved brand of Not For Sale. From media to creative, marketing to messaging, she oversees all that’s construed as communications within the campaign. She comes to Not For Sale with a background in European Politics and a BA in Communication Studies from Westmont College, where she met David Batstone at the launch of the campaign in 2007. Soon after she became the first staff member (and Southern California pole) of NFS, and hasn’t paused since. When not on the road, Allison does wedding coordination from Santa Barbara, CA and works as a Communications and Marketing consultant with the Right Reality group.
Kilian Moote – Director of Advocacy
Prior to joining the campaign Kilian spent time working on a variety of grass-roots advocacy campaigns. Kilian has been involved with the Not For Sale Campaign since its inception. In 2008 he worked with the children of Generacion in Lima, Peru, teaching important business skills and supporting a micro-enterprise for Not for Sale. He is a master at advocacy, and is the lead voice and vision of Free2Work. Kilian also oversees and directs the content for the Global Forum on Human Trafficking, the campaigns annual conference focusing on human trafficking. In 2009, Kilian presented to over 50 groups on the complexity of the global supply chain, consumer connections to slavery, and how to be a smart abolitionist. He is also the best athlete at Not For Sale.
Laura Aguirre – Director of Events & Operational Systems
Laura has been involved with the Not For Sale Campaign since her participation in the University of San Francisco’s Erasmus living-learning community in 2006. She coordinated the efforts of several students in research, investigation, and surveillance of human trafficking in San Francisco. In Spring 2008, she documented prosecuted trafficking cases and observed the National Human Trafficking Hotline with an internship at Polaris Project. Laura oversees the event production for the Global Forum on Human Trafficking and Global Advocacy Days. She also oversees donor relationship management, including data and contact management and the internal workflow systemstream. Laura is one of our beloved “J’s” – organized, encouraging, and an essential part of the NFS team.
Imelda Buncab – National Constituency Director
With a strong background in the anti-human trafficking field, Imelda Buncab leads Not For Sale’s State and Regional Directors. She provides leadership to assure that all regional operations have a long-range strategy that achieves NFSC objectives within their region/state/province, and makes consistent and timely progress toward that goal. She guides Directors to find new and innovative ways to promote active and broad participation of volunteers in all areas of the organization’s work as well as facilitate relations between law enforcement and community organizations. Click here to find a Director in your area!
Christina Hebets – International Operations Manager
Christina Hebets has been involved with Not for Sale since 2006 when as a student at the University of San Francisco, she participated in the initial mapping of slavery in San Francisco. Christina continued her work towards justice and international development when researching the use of micro-credit as a tool for poverty reduction in Northern Ghana. In the summer of 2009 she returned to Ghana on behalf of Not for Sale to map slavery in the fishing industry. Christina is currently carrying out the logistics of Not for Sale’s international projects.
Dennis Mark – Chief Investigator & NFS Academy Director
Dennis Mark has extensive experience with coordinating between grassroots movements, law enforcement, and legislators. He is Not For Sale’s chief investigator and trafficking documenter and simultaneously coordinates the NFSC Abolitionist Academy. He also leads the Justice League, an exclusive group of law enforcement officials in the anti-human trafficking movement. Click here to learn more about the Academy!!
Kevin Austin – Director of the Abolitionist Faith Community
Kevin Austin serves as the Director of the Abolitionist Faith Community, overseeing Freedom Sunday, Freedom Shabbat, and our faith community work. Kevin is an ordained Free Methodist pastor, on staff at Lakeside Community Fellowship in Lake Stevens, Washington, and a former missionary to Thailand. Kevin is a professional musician, a writer, photographer, and enjoys travel, coffee, and apple crisp alamode.
Keturah Scott – Fellowship Director; Stop Paying for Slavery Tour coordinator
Keturah Scott joined Not for Sale in early January, and is the first graduate of Not for Sale’s fellowship program. Keturah received her B.A. in Global Studies with a minor in Religious Studies from Emmanuel College. With a background in education, non-profit work, and social justice, she is poised to direct the Fellowship Program, as well as coordinate the Stop Paying For Slavery tour and make sure Dave is always where he needs to be as his Executive Assistant.
Ethan Batstone – Director of Free2Play
Ethan has been involved with Not For Sale for two years in Southern California as a Region Director based out of Orange County. While acquiring his B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Irvine, he worked with students, churches, and local law enforcement to build an understanding of human trafficking within the community. In December of 2009, Ethan organized a Pier to Pier Free2Walk event along the beach to increase awareness of trafficking and raise money towards Not For Sale’s International Projects. He is working to build Free2Play into a growing community of athletes, fans, and lovers of freedom who seek to use their own love of physical activity and creativity as a means of combating human trafficking. When not busy, he is a huge fan of film, television, and music, and has almost an unrivaled knowledge of pop-culture trivia
Brant Christopher – Artist in Residence
Brant Christopher Menswar shares Dave Batstone’s “tri-polar” personality. He is an award winning singer/songwriter/worship leader best known for fronting the wildly popular Koch Records trio Fort Pastor. He has served as the vice president of business development for one of the largest receivables management companies in the world as well as started several successful internet marketing dotcoms. He also is the founder of the Social Justice Army, a non-profit organization performing over 20,000 community service hours per year. Brant’s last CD “Beautiful Imperfection” was met with widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike. The album received rave reviews from Billboard, Christianity Today, Sirius Satellite Radio, CMCentral, CrossRhythms Magazine, The Phantom Toll Booth, and others calling Brant’s voice “Gritty and Magnificent!” and the album a “A rare triumph!” Be sure to check him out this year during the Stop Paying for Slavery Tour!
Meet the Director of the Freedom Store!
Stephanie Voorkamp – Director of the Freedom Store & Consultant on Commerce & Business Development
Stephanie Voorkamp oversees the Freedom Store and its Outposts by diversifying the products offered in the Store. She develops new business opportunities for NFSC merchandise and commerce, and works with State and Regional Directors to support these sustainable goods and entrepreneurial businesses. Click here to shop at the Freedom Store!!
