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Trisha Baptie (born 1973) is a citizen journalist and activist for the abolition of prostitution.

Trisha was first prostituted at the age of 13. She spent a significant number of years spent in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside area, until the age of 28 when she left prostitution to enter into a healthier life.

In 2007 Trisha became a citizen journalist for Orato, an online newspaper. to cover the murder trial of Robert Pickton, most of whose victims he picked up from Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Many of his victims were known to Trisha. During this period of time Trisha’s values, voice, and politics were honed.

In 2008 she won the Courage to Come Back award, and she emerged as a vibrant activist seeking the abolition of prostitution in Canada and the world.

In 2009 Trisha founded EVE (formerly Exploited Voices now Educating). EVE is a volunteer, non-governmental, non-profit organization composed of former sex-industry women dedicated to naming prostitution violence against women and seeing its abolition through political action, advocacy, and awareness raising that focuses on ending the demand for paid sexual access to women and children's bodies.

In 2009-2010 Trisha was a leading voice in the Buying Sex is Not a Sport campaign in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver. She was a focal speaker in the Langara Dialogues, a public forum in which prostitution, human trafficking, community responsibility, abolition, legalization, and their ties to Olympics were discussed and debated.

In 2010 Trisha appeared in the documentary film “Our Lives to Fight For”.

In 2011 Trisha was invited to speak at the TEDx event hosted by Simon Fraser University.

In 2011 Trisha and EVE joined the Woman’s Equality and Security Commission (WESC) to contribute to the Missing Women Inquiry.

Trisha is a frequent voice for governmental change to laws connecting to prostitution. In 2010, she joined Christine Barkhouse, Natasha Falle, Katarina MacLeod, and Bridgett Perrier in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in picketing the repeal of prostitution laws. All five women are survivors of human trafficking who had been prostituted in Canada.