David Batstone –President and 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. 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.
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. 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. As co-founder of Not for Sale, Mark’s knowledge of the organization and modern day slavery is unparalleled. He represents Not for Sale at speaking engagements around the world.
Kique Bazan – International Investment Director and Co-Founder
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. In Not For Sale, he implements and oversees high asset donor relationships, as well as overseeing all international projects and investments.
Allison Trowbridge – Director of Communications & Marketing
Allison comes to the Not For Sale Campaign with a background in Communication Studies and European politics — having worked for a British member of the European Parliament in Brussels. At the launch of Not For Sale in 2007, Allison met David Batstone at their alma mater, Westmont College. Inspired to action, she began volunteering with the organization, and has never looked back. She has traveled with the campaign to Cambodia and Thailand, and today serves as the Communications Director from Santa Barbara, CA, managing media, messaging, and all things meaningful. Allison, an inspiring speaker with a passionate voice for the oppressed, has experience representing Not For Sale to thousands of constituents.
Kilian Moote – Director of Advocacy
Kilian has been involved with the Not For Sale Campaign since its inception. Prior to joining the campaign Kilian spent time working on a variety of grass-roots advocacy campaigns. In 2008 he worked with the children of Generacion in Lima, Peru, teaching important business skills and supporting a micro-finance enterprise for Not for Sale. He is a master at advocacy, and is the lead voice and vision of Free2Work. 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.
T. Joseph Natale – Director of Organizational Development
Joseph Natale joins the Not For Sale Team to manage the legal and financial infrastructure, working closely with the Executive Team in the implementation of strategic organizational development. Joseph has 28 years experience in management consultation in the business arena. He has worked directly with Presidents, CEOs and Boards with organizations such as Verizon, AT&T, ORACLE, The Inter-American Development Bank, State of California, The United Way, Viral Genetics and Sea World. In 1985, Joseph founded a global, non-profit organization. Through this organization and its’ affiliates, thousands of socio-economically disadvantaged people have been served and empowered to quality of life and self-sustenance. Joseph has worked with various organizations in community development, the rescue of abandoned and trafficked women and children and the development of environmental and health projects in the United States, and abroad.
Joseph’s experience and background make him an excellent resource and an incredible speaker at business schools and corporate gatherings.
Imelda Buncab – National Constituency Director
Imelda oversees all 60 state and regional operations of NFSC within the United States and Canada, as well as provides training to United States’ law enforcement through NFSC’s Justice League. Imelda comes to the campaign with over ten years experience in the non-profit sector that includes providing direct services to victims/survivors, program outreach, training and advocacy.
Prior to joining NFSC, Imelda worked for Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST) in Los Angeles, a leading anti-trafficking organization in the United States. She managed the CAST Outreach and Training Program, which included the Survivor Advisory Caucus Project, STOP (Sex Trafficking Outreach Project) and the national Freedom Network Training Institute on Human Trafficking. She also worked as the Program Coordinator of Project Safe Haven Anti-Human Trafficking Program at Crisis House in El Cajon, CA, and a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Victim Advocate at the Center for Community Solutions in San Diego, CA. She is currently a certified California Police Officer Standards Training (POST) Institute for Criminal Investigation (ICI) Instructor. She has participated as a speaker and spokeswoman in numerous local, state, and international conferences addressing the issues of human trafficking and gender-based violence.
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. Christina will also be driving the Student Abolitionist Network, speaking at middle schools, high school, and colleges -building the coalition and growing the student movement.
Stephanie Voorkamp – Director of Commerce & Business Development
Stephanie Voorkamp oversees the Freedom Store and its Outposts by diversifying the products Not For Sale offers 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.
Dennis Mark – Chief Investigator & NFS Academy Director
Dennis Mark has extensive experience coordinating 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.
Kevin Austin – Director of Faith Abolitionist Community
Kevin Austin is the director of the Faith Abolitionist Community- which includes the Underground Church Network and the Jewish Abolitionist Movement. Additionally, Kevin helps to equip and educate faith communities so we may all engage effectively in re-abolishing slavery.
Brant Christopher – Artist in Residence
Brant Christopher is an award winning singer/songwriter/worship pastor best known for fronting the wildly popular Koch Records trio Fort Pastor. Brant’s latest CD, “Climb”, was met with widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike. The album received rave reviews from publications around the globe labeling Brant “A pied piper of aural activism!” while noting, “Christopher is good enough to make it in the world of mainstream Pop, but chooses to live where he’s most comfortable; where faith, music and social activism blend into one. He’s onto something.” Climb recently received four out of five stars from Christianity Today where they proclaimed Brant’s style as “an ear-catching blend of folk, blues, and roots-drenched pop that sounds like a contemporary version of the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, crossed with today’s most pensive tunesmiths.” Be sure to check him out this year during the Stop Paying for Slavery Tour!
