Carol Smolenski

Carol Smolenski is Executive Director and one of the founders of ECPAT-USA, a children’s rights organization that has worked for the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation since 1991. She is a long time nationally recognized expert on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children. At ECPAT-USA she has developed project against the trafficking of children in New York City, Mexico, Belize and Brazil. Among other achievements is she has been named a subject matter expert on sexual exploitation of children for the Dept. of Health and Human Services Family and Youth Services Bureau and the Runaway and Homeless Training and Technical Assistant Center. She is a winner of New York’s Union Square Award. She has spoken at numerous conferences and has presented testimony in venues ranging from the New York City Council to the United States Congress to the United Nations. She has a Masters degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College and an M.Phil. degree from Columbia University.