Polaris Project

U.S. nonprofit organization Polaris ProjectFormation2002; 24 years ago (2002)FoundersDerek EllermanKatherine ChonTypeNGOHeadquartersWashington, D.C., U.S.LocationUnited StatesCEOMegan Lundstrom Main organBoard of DirectorsWebsiteOfficial website Polaris is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America. The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in vacuum but rather is the predictable end result of a range of other persistent injustices and inequities in our society and our economy. Knowing that, and leveraging data available from more than a dozen years operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, Polaris is focused on three major areas of work: building power for migrant workers who are at risk of trafficking in U.S. agricultural and other industries; leveraging the reach and expertise of financial systems to disrupt trafficking, creating accountability for perpetrators of violence against people in the sex trade and expanding services and supports to vulnerable people to prevent trafficking before it happens. Polaris operates the U.S. Nation