YVONNE WILLIAMS is Co-Founder and President of Trafficking In America Task Force, Inc. a non-profit charitable organization.

She is a professional artist, author and screenwriter. Her book titles include: Proponents of Peace; My Father’s Garden – A Tribute to Step-Fathers; My Daily Garden Journal; There’s a Flower in the Garbage; And the Angels Danced; and A Dance For Bethany which is also a 4-time award winning Feature Film about a 12-year-old runaway rescued out of a life of sex slavery and into her dream of becoming a dancer. This is the story that changed her life. Since learning in 2004 of the sex trafficking problem that plagues not only America but the entire globe, Yvonne and husband, Marion have worked to educate people and make them aware of the tragedy. The story of A Dance For Bethany proves one person really can make a difference and is now seen in the Czech-Republic; Middle East; and South Africa where it was launched to combat sex trafficking in South Africa.

Trafficking In America Task Force, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization formed to educate and mobilize people across the United States to work towards eradicating human trafficking in America through education and creating cultural change. Some of TIATFs projects, programs, and activities include: The annual National Trafficking In America Conference slated as “the conference to go to for education on human trafficking,” by Laura Lederer, JD, former senior advisor of human trafficking to the President of the U.S.; 2011 Human Trafficking Awareness Week proclamation submitted and signed by TN Gov. Bill Haslam in TN; Initiated the Human Trafficking Awareness Month unanimously approved by the TN General Assembly and signed by TN Governor Bill Haslam in 2012; created the National Program, I Promise To Do My Part campaign to engage youth in educating youth about human trafficking and to serve as a means of prevention and demand reduction, a collaborative effort with A Bridge of Hope in Memphis, TN; 2011 organized a State Wide Press Conferences in TN; 2012 organized Press Conference in Eastern TN and San Antonio, TX to address the issue of human trafficking; co-producer and host of the TIA Now weekly television program; conducts training for educators and law enforcement; served on the steering committee for the National Week-end of Prayer 2012. Yvonne is the National Coordinator for National Educators to Stop Trafficking (NEST), an on-line warehouse of curriculum for educators.

The TIATF-Alliance was launched in Sept. 2013 mobilizing citizens across the United States to use their gifts and talents to bring an end to modern slavery, and to enable strategic over-site to those that need and want direction to help them fulfill their visions to end human trafficking.

Yvonne’s most recent presentations include in 2012: the TN Conference for School Social Workers, Human Trafficking 101 and Identifying Victims; TN Conference on Social Welfare, Using Your Gift to Prevent Victims of Human Trafficking; Key note at the Universal Peace Federation forum in Washington, DC, The Face of Human Trafficking in America, Creating Solutions to End it; Kay Spiritual Life Center at American University, Washington DC, Human Trafficking 101; Women’s Federation for World Peace 20th Anniversary Conference, Las Vegas, From Victim to Victor to Voice; and in 2013: Freedom Rally, Orlando, FL on Demand Reduction and Solutions for Cultural Change; and in 2013 Universal Peace Federation, Washington, DC, Human Trafficking and Poverty, a Critical Connection: Creating a Culture Free of Slavery; Vanderbilt University, TN, Complicity of the Sate in Human Trafficking; Elon University, NC, Demand for Commercial Sex and How to Stop it; Eastern Carolina University, NC, Ending Human Trafficking by Ending the Demand. Yvonne served on Congresswoman Lois Frankel’s round table on human trafficking in West Palm Beach, FL; served as Master of Ceremonies for the National Week-end of Prayer in Washington DC. Yvonne recently served as a speaker on Human Trafficking at the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

Yvonne is the recipient of the Middle TN and the State of Tennessee’s Professional Advocate of the Year Award of 2011 by the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare.