Sex trafficking is a significant health and human rights concern that impacts millions of adults and children globally. While my research interests have predominantly focused on adolescent survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in the United States, I am working to build a global perspective of sex trafficking, beginning in India. Currently, my research seeks to identify the ways in which culture and context frame women and adolescent girl's involvement and exit from sex trafficking, the ways in which gender, race and cultural perceptions inform perceptions of women who have experienced sex trafficking, and the identification familial and social network processes that shape the experiences and decision making processes of sex trafficking survivors.