Janice G. Raymond is Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and Medical Ethics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (USA). She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Linkoping in Sweden, Visiting Research Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Lecturer at the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN Sunan Kalijaga), Center for Women Studies, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A longtime feminist scholar/activist against violence against women and sexual exploitation, as well as against the medical abuse of women, Janice Raymond was Co-Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) from 1994-2007 and is currently on its Board of Directors. Under Raymond's leadership, CATW expanded its regional networks and partners in the Baltics, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe, and supported prevention of human trafficking projects in the Philippines, Venezuela, Mexico, Mali and the Republic of Georgia. CATW has also helped provide services for Nigerian women trafficked to Italy, trained police and judges in India and educated journalists in Albania. Janice Raymond has been in the forefront of the campaign to get prostitution recognized as violence against women, encouraging governments to provide services and alternatives for women in prostitution and penalize the purchase of women and children for sexual activities. For her work, Raymond received the "International Woman Award" from the Zero Tolerance Trust in Scotland. In 2000, she co-published one of the first studies on trafficking in the United States entitled, Sex Trafficking in the United States: Links Between International and Domestic Sex Industries. Following this study, she directed and co-authored a multi-country project in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Venezuela and the United States, entitled Women in the International Migration Process: Patterns, Profiles and Health Consequences of Sexual Exploitation. Raymond has testified before the European Parliament on "The Impact of the Sex Industry in the EU," and before a subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on "The Ongoing Tragedy of International Slavery and Human Trafficking." Janice Raymond has also served as an expert witness to legal challenges promoting decriminalization of the sex industry. Janice Raymond has published articles in the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, Truthdig, Portside, and OpEd News. Raymond is the author of six books and multiple articles, translated into several languages, on issues ranging from violence against women, women's health, feminist theory and bio-medicine. She has also published numerous articles on prostitution and sex trafficking. She lectures internationally on all these topics. Her most recent book is Not a Choice, Not A Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade. Her website is janiceraymond.com