381: Why Hope Belongs in Every Anti-Trafficking Organization's Toolkit

Annalisa Enrile joins Dr. Sandie Morgan to turn hope from a feeling into a working tool for anti-trafficking organizations, with three steps for survivor leaders, social workers, students, and anyone who wants to support the movement.

Chapters

(00:00) - Hope Is More Than a Feeling

(01:58) - Hope as a Verb and What to Measure

(08:54) - How Traffickers Sell a Better Life

(11:54) - Steps One and Two: A Clear Goal and a Mapped Path

(15:42) - Step Three: Cultivating Agency

(17:20) - Making the Case for Capacity to Funders

(25:19) - Mentorship as the Ultimate Capacity Builder

(30:10) - Final Thoughts: Operationalize Hope

About Annalisa Enrile

Annalisa Enrile, PhD, MSW, is a teaching professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, where she is also course lead for the Doctor of Social Work (DSW) program. Her anti-trafficking work began in the Philippines, and one of her first programs in the field served girls. Today she uses design thinking to build prevention programs and interventions that turn hope into action, and she speaks out against exploitative migrant labor. Her students in the school's Philippines immersion program complete capstone projects with grassroots organizations there. She writes about hope as a daily practice for social workers, activists and communities in Psychology Today, in pieces including "Hope Is a Verb," "The Right Now: Hope in the Present Tense," and "Taking Up Space." She credits her mentors with keeping her in this work, among them the late Uncle Roy Morales, an elder in the Filipino community.