Prosecution Foundations: Capturing the Totality of the Trafficker’s Criminality

Jane Anderson brings her expertise in prosecuting domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking to her role as an Attorney Advisor with AEquitas. Prior to joining AEquitas, Jane served as a prosecutor in Miami, Florida where she tried many of the state's first human trafficking cases. In her role as a founding member of the Human Trafficking Unit, Jane developed policies to better identify and provide necessary services to trafficking victims, while ensuring offender accountability through the use of digital evidence and creative charging decisions. Jane also served as a supervisor in the Domestic Violence Unit, where she trained new attorneys and oversaw the prosecution of domestic violence, stalking, and violations of protection orders. Throughout her career, Jane prosecuted felony-level crimes of all types, including homicide, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Currently, Jane’s responsibilities include serving as a member of the IACP technical assistance team and as ICF’s “field coach” for human trafficking prosecutors around the U.S. Jane graduated cum laude from American University, Washington College of Law and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

David is the Chief of the Human Trafficking Unit at the Kings County (Brooklyn, NY) District Attorney’s Office and the law enforcement chair of the ECM Brooklyn Human Trafficking Task Force. After starting his career in 2006, he was previously assigned to the felony trial zone handling cases involving violent assaults, robbery, and murder and the Healthcare Fraud Unit investigating doctors and pharmacists. David has been in the Human Trafficking Unit since 2014. In 2015, David led an investigation and prosecution which resulted in the takedown of hotel owners permitting prostitution in hotels in Brooklyn and Queens. David was also cross-designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York to bring federal sex trafficking charges in a case involving several underage girls. David regularly presents on Human Trafficking investigations and prosecutions throughout NY State and for international law enforcement officials through the US Department of State International Visitor’s Program.

Carolyn Meissner joined the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 2021. She currently serves as a Project Coordinator for multiple anti-human trafficking projects, including Building Agency Capacity: A Toolkit for Human Trafficking Investigations and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program for Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Forces. She was previously on the Mental Health/Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities team where she worked to enhance law enforcement response to individuals with mental health crises and to reduce the number of deaths and injuries of individuals with forms of dementia or developmental disabilities who may wander due to their condition.
Prior to joining the IACP, Ms. Meissner interned at the Arlington County (VA) Police Department in the Homicide/Robbery Unit and the Madison (WI) Police Department in the Burglary Crime Unit. She also was a Research Assistant in the Child Emotion Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Weisman Center where she worked on research related to children who have been abused and their response to emotional stimuli.
Ms. Meissner has a master’s degree in forensic and legal psychology from Marymount University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a certificate in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.