GOD HAS GIVEN HIS ANSWER TO ENDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
US.
MY NAME IS DANIEL V.
My name is Daniel V, and I am The Founder / Vision Director of The Mahalia Project LLC. Having worked professionally in various capacities as a Media Director, Visual Storyteller, and Freelance Video Editor, I longed to use my skills to impact issues of social justice and human rights. in 2013, I learned of the atrocities of human trafficking, specially in the US, and began an awareness campaign to revolutionize media and cultural narratives. Having studied Media, Advertisement / Marketing, coupled with gender narratives and persuasion, it became clear to me quickly; if we wished to shift and prevent the culture of exploitation, we needed to target the messages being delivered. To fight human trafficking, on US soil, at a preventative level, would require the unwelcome breach of Hollywood culture, pornography, legal sex industries, social media, familial trauma, and community division. We would need to build a brand of relevance, through media excellence, deep community investment, and position our messages and conversations in the most sought after and focused areas for young people; music, media, fashion, sexuality, and social life.
Thus, The Mahalia Project LLC was birthed.
Our work is both unprecedented and vital as we exist in a very needed niche; prevention. Whilst the common considered approaches of anti-human trafficking are legislative and rescue based, and mostly exist as a response to the issue having already occurred, we have built our foundation on a simple but challenging question: how do we stop people from becoming the exploited, or the exploiter? By intersecting with young adults in the trends, cultures, and lifestyles they engage with, we would promote education, community, resources, and experiences that build confidence, self-expression, and entrepreneurial skills in the most at risk age groups.
Myself and my team would be thrilled for the opportunity to speak at your next event, community forum, school / college, to educate and empower those in our community. Please reach out below and let’s come together to stand for freedom!