Over the past year, I completed an internship for Civil Lawyers Against World Slavery (CLAWS), a non-profit entity focused on ending human trafficking using the civil justice system. The primary focus and goal of CLAWS is to target those that indirectly facilitate trafficking activities (e.g., hotels that allow sex trade on their property without scrutiny) with civil lawsuits and judgments against them in order to create both financial disincentives for non-cooperation with traffickers and incentives for investigating and reporting such activities to law enforcement. I didn’t not play so much of an active role in regards to being “in the field”. Instead of sitting in police cars overviewing sting operations, I reviewed and summarized the criminal arrest reports of sexual trafficking arrests. I went through collections of reports, searching for any parallels to link sexual slavery to potenial enterprises that harbored sex slavery. Eventually our team located one specific motel who would willingly and knowingly rent three separate rooms that functioned to service drugs and woman (sex slaves) to “clinets”. Working with the local DA, Our organization used Georgia’s anti nuisance statute to force the motel to observate potential red flags such as buying multiple units that are all on the ground floor or paying with all cash. This was the first time in Georgia history that the anti nuisance statute functioned in the capacity to combat sex slavery. After, our team worked with the DA’s office to organize a sting operation where an undercover police officer offered the motel the red flags, yet the manager denied the undercover cop. Through this internship with CLAWS, I learned the value and importance of how individual efforts are more efficient and effective within a group dynamic and how that is the best way to contribute to change.