CWS Staff
Sandie Morgan, RN, MA
Sandie Morgan is Administrator of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force where she is working to build a team that will educate and enlist our local community against the modern slave trade. Sandie is a Registered Nurse and has served on the board of the International Nurses Association in Athens, Greece where she lived for ten years. It was there that she discovered human trafficking while doing a story for Lydia Living magazine. She also serves as Director of Vanguard University’s Center for Women’s Studies and adjunct professor of Family Violence and Human Trafficking www.vanguard.edu/cws. Sandie continues to serve as Founder/Director of the Lydia Today Foundation (www.lydiatoday.org) and Live2Free, a youth initiative against slavery (www.live2free.org). Sandie guest lectures in universities, community groups, and churches and is presently pursuing a PhD in Intercultural Studies. Since accepting the leadership of the OC Human Trafficking Task Force, Sandie has been interviewed by the LA Times http://articles.latimes.com/2008/01/10/metro/me-parsons10, the OC METRO Business Magazine http://www.ocmetro.com/NEW_SITE/metro031308/women.php, the OC Register, KOCE – Real Orange, Today’s Christian Woman, and other media. Developing community grassroots awareness is critical to ending slavery. She partnered with other members of the OC Community to produce an awareness video, "The Cost of Demand", which can be viewed at www.ochumantrafficking.org. Changing the way we think about the forces that drive demand for human trafficking is her goal. She says, “The modern slave trade is a business fueled by demand. Consequently, to some degree we are all part of the problem or part of the solution. We contribute to demand by turning a blind eye to pornography and sex tourism or by making choices that reward companies that keep their bottom line under the rest of the market by the use of slave labor.”
sandra.morgan@vanguard.edu
714-556-3610 x2240
Tina Kroona, B.A.
Tina Kroona is the Program Secretary for the Center for Women’s Studies at Vanguard University. In this position she coordinates various University and community events put on by the center as well as manages the office. Tina graduated from Vanguard University in 2008 with her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, and minors in Women's Studies and Religion. During her senior year at Vanguard, she did her field practicum as the student intern for the Center for Women's Studies. Since graduation she spent a year in the Logan section of Philadelphia, PA serving through Mission Year as a full-time volunteer in the inner-city. Since relocating back to Orange County, Tina has returned to work part time in the Center for Women's Studies.
Tina.Kroona@vanguard.edu
714-556-3610 x2242