PATTAYA, Thailand – Sex Worker Rights Advocate Mariah Grant is this week’s guest on the Adult Site Broker Talk podcast, the show announced today. Grant is a human rights expert who “focuses on migrant and sex worker rights, freedom of movement, and labor exploitation,” the show explained in the announcement.
“She is a highly effective advocate who works to end systems of oppression in collaboration with impacted communities and individuals, including sex workers, drug users, migrants, and people who are currently or were previously incarcerated,” the announcement added. “Mariah combines her many years of experience providing direct services to migrant and refugee children and families within the United States and Europe and researching and documenting human rights abuses throughout the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific to push for long-term policy solutions at the local, national, and international levels.”
Grant currently works as a freelance consultant working on projects related to sex worker rights, human trafficking prevention, and service provision for survivors.
Prior to her consulting work, Grant served as the Director of Research and Advocacy with the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center, where she “oversaw research on the harms of sex work criminalization, including police violence, as well as local, state, and federal policy advocacy to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work,” according to the announcement.
Grant has consulted and worked with a variety of organizations, including the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the US Department of State, the US Department of Labor, ICF International, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the Free Speech Coalition, Decriminalize Sex Work, Freedom Network USA, New Moon Network, Protection International, Morrison Child and Family Service, Minority Rights Group International, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.
In her previous roles, Grant “successfully introduced and helped pass state and federal-US laws and policies to protect the health and human rights of sex workers and survivors of human trafficking,” the announcement added, noting that she also “led several groundbreaking research projects on topics ranging from the experiences of sex workers in conflict zones and humanitarian crises to the impacts of district attorney non-prosecution policies in the context of sex work criminalization.”
“My conversation with Mariah was fascinating,” said Bruce the adult site broker, host of the podcast and CEO of Adult Site Broker. “We could have easily talked twice as long. I learned a lot about sex worker rights, and you will, too.”
You can listen to Mariah Grant’s appearance on Adult Site Broker Talk now at AdultSiteBrokerTalk.com. For more from Grant, follow her on X @MariahGrant29.
