Christa Crawford is founder of Freedom Resource International, a strategic partnership empowering the anti-trafficking movement for greater effectiveness through training and capacity building, resource development and sharing, expert advice, and strategic-level impact. She teaches courses on trafficking and exploitation at the university and graduate level, and serves as the associate director of a Center on Human Rights Law. Crawford has also authored and edited numerous books, articles, and curricula to equip practitioners. Her training courses include the Certificate Course on Excellence in Anti-Trafficking Response. She has worked at both the grassroots and policy levels, including with the United Nations, and pioneered a social enterprise to provide sustainable options to vulnerable people. Crawford is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Claremont McKenna College. Originally from the United States, she has lived with her family in Chiang Mai, Thailand, since 2001.