User:Sparrow (2019)/Coco Berthmann

Coco Berthmann is a counter- human- trafficking activist and specialist, aspiring forensic neurologist and lawyer and public speaker. She is also president of the Coco Berthmann foundation, which provides scholarships for the education of human trafficking survivors world wide.

Early life and child trafficking
Coco Berthmann was trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation for 15 years by her own mother. She escaped from the trafficking at age 15. She describes being raped 10 to 50 times a day during that time.

Activism and career
Coco Berthmann has an associate degree in marketing from LDS Business College, Utah. She worked for NewBit in Hannover, Germany trying to help at risk youth in pursuing and education and learning life skills. She was part of the board of directors of the ARISE Project for Humanity from 2019 to 2020. This project helped at risk youth in Hawaii and the US to get a stable life and pursue education. In 2020 she founded and is to this day president of the Coco Berthmann foundation which provides scholarships for human trafficking survivors to pursue higher education. A goal of Berthmann and her foundation is also to educate on the misconceptions and misinformation around human trafficking.

Appearances

 * TEDxBYU 30.03.2021 - TED talk on misconceptions about human trafficking and healing from trauma. 