Kelly HylandFor more than two decades, Kelly Hyland has served in government and nongovernment positions working on human trafficking through training, policy, state and federal legislation, and legal representation.
She currently serves within the U.S. Deparment of Homeland Security as a legal advisor on human trafficking, victim assistance, and victim-based immigration benefits. Formerly, she co-founded a nonprofit organization that trained government, nonprofit, and Fortune 500 professionals to identify and prevent human trafficking. As senior counsel in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State, she led interagency coordination and advised on immigration, law enforcement, workers' rights, victim protections, diplomatic immunity, social services, and U.S. implementation efforts. Most importantly, and what has led to all of her subsequent work, in her first position as a new attorney, she assisted more than two hundred trafficked persons. She has published extensively.
Kelly is a graduate of the Washington College of Law at American University and Allegheny College. She is a member of the State Bar of California. Read More Read Less