Friday, September 17, 2010
7:00 PM

David Batstone, Ph.D.

David Batstone, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert on human trafficking and author of Not For Sale, an examination of the global slave trade, will speak at the Rothko Chapel.  In 2007, he co-founded the “Not For Sale” campaign, which is inspiring thousands of people from grassroots activists to business leaders to celebrities to join together to put an end to modern-day slavery. A former professor of Social Ethics at the University of San Francisco who held the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair, David Batstone has worked as a journalist for publications including the San Francisco Examiner, where he was a foreign correspondent, contributing from Latin America.  For six years he was executive editor of Sojourners magazine, and he was a founding editor of Business 2.0 magazine. He has contributed to Spin, Wired, The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune and is the recipient of two national journalism awards.  This program is presented as part of Houston’s fourth annual Human Trafficking Awareness Week.