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Volunteer Day with Time Team Detroit

On March 30, Mojo in the Morning’s Time Team Detroit helped us remodel our third home for survivors. The work they did included • Caulking windows • Installing fixtures • Painting rooms • Putting together furniture • Sanding floors • Washing floors Volunteers at the...

Volunteers Help Get Our House Ready

On March 16th and 23rd, volunteers helped us get our second safe house ready. They helped us by painting walls, cleaning, and sanding floors. The work that they did will help make the house feel like a home when our survivors move in. Thank you to all the volunteers...

Michigan State Federal Credit Union Day of Service

Special thanks to the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union for giving up your Saturday to paint at one of our houses. We are so excited that the house is nearing completion. Check out some of the photos from the day: [gallery...

Welcome New Board Members

Hope Happenings MW-HAT has been so fortunate to welcome new board members that each bring an insurmountable amount of insight and talent. Let us introduce them… Daniel Russell Hope Against Trafficking board member Daniel Russell, Sr Vice President, DEM Group LLC “Set...

Deloitte’s Impact Day

Hope Happenings MW-HAT has been chosen as a non-profit for Deloitte’s company’s volunteers to make a difference. These volunteers will build a community garden, a garden that offers a place for the community to come and support one another, garnering...

Dell/EMC’s Volunteer Work Day

Hope Happenings MW–HAT has been chosen as the very privileged partner for a volunteer project with Dell/EMC. The volunteers coming in will focus on building a vegetable and herb garden that will be a therapeutic component for survivors, both in gardening and...

Dine for A Cause, Red Crown

Hope Happenings MW-HAT is proud of the partnerships we have built with local restaurants, like Red Crown, who not only support our cause but are willing to give a portion of their proceeds for one evening to benefit MW-HAT. These opportunities give us a chance to...

Leadership Oakland Day of Service

Hope Happenings One of our of Board of Directors, Barb Rausch, brilliantly cultivated not only a collaborative partnership with Leadership Oakland, but has taken this partnership to the next level. We hosted 55 people from Leadership Oakland on the 20th May for a day...

Women In Defense, Human Trafficking Panel Discussion

Hope Happenings MW-HAT was asked to be part of a distinguished panel for Women in Defense discussing human trafficking and how it is being addressed at the political, judiciary, corporate and non-profit levels. We must say, during the Q&A, we were quite impressed...

Women’s Lawyer Association Annual Meeting and Unshackled: MW-HAT Stands Together (But Geographically Separated) To Send Our Message

Hope Happenings We had representatives of our organization standing with each other: one in East Lansing and one in Troy. On the Lansing side: MW-HAT was able to connect with legal members at the Women’s Lawyer Association to ensure that the needed...

Harvest Christian Church and Harvey’s Thrift Stores: Giving & Giving Big

Hope Happenings Justin Bright said to us “I need you guys to meet Pastor Joe.” Not only did we meet Pastor Joe, but also his amazing wife, Janet. Within minutes, they were willing to stand next to us. Their hearts are beyond extraordinary and their kindness and...

Make Our House a Home: Sherwood Brewing & Justin Bright

Hope Happenings MW-HAT has been beyond privileged to expand our network of partners who push us to make things happen and are willing to give their insight and expertise to make this happen. Justin Bright is one of those individuals, along with people like Shawn...

With us From the Beginning: Woodside Bible Church

Hope Happenings Woodside Bible Church has been a true beacon of light, standing alongside MW-HAT in our concerted effort to bring an end to human trafficking since our inception in 2013. They brought us in as a local non-profit organization to help us raise...

Community Activism With Successful People Who Care: Leadership Oakland

Hope Happenings Leadership Oakland’s 2016-2017 Cornerstone Program began its partnership with MW-HAT in January to help combat human trafficking in Oakland County. We are excited to connect with this passionate team of 52 professionals from the region. They want...

Catalyzing Corporate Engagement: Google with Benevity

Hope Happenings Google teamed with Benevity, a unique breed of for-profit companies with a social mission that is ‘doing well by doing good.’ It is something bigger than just giving, but empowering their people to support causes that make a difference. MW-HAT...

Dine for a Cause: KouZina and The Bird & The Bread

Hope Happenings In partnership with GroupRaise, MW-HAT partnered with several local restaurants to host ‘Dine for a Cause.’ Our first was with KouZina, a brilliant Greek street food restaurant in Royal Oak. Not only did we raise awareness around human...

Energizing and Reinvigorating: Dell EMC

Hope Happenings January 2017 kicked off the beginning of a very exciting partnership with Dell EMC. With enthusiastic teams at both Dell EMC and MW-HAT, we are working together to cultivate an evolving relationship that will look to energize and invigorate our...

Getting Fit and Raising Awareness: CrossFit

Hope Happenings Our President, Hannah McPeak, spearheaded this cause in 2016 and due to its success, she expanded this fundraising event to several local Detroit CrossFit locations. She engaged with local CrossFit gym owners and coaches to develop a WOD (workout of...

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Michele Ibister

Michele earned her Executive MBA degree from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business, elevating her success in the operational and administrative business environment.

With over 25 years experience in procurement, Michele has served multi-national billion dollar organizations such as thyssenkrupp, Autoliv and JLL. She currently serves on the board of MSU EMBA Alumni Association as well as dedicating time to the mission of Hope Against Trafficking.

Michele has a passion for travel and has been on five continents with the ultimate goal of seeing all seven. She and her husband James live in Lake Orion and together enjoy spending time with children and grandchildren.

Barbara Rausch

Barbara Rausch has been engaged as a Board Member of MW-HAT since its founding, helping to set the strategic direction for the organization. Barbara has a BS in Marketing and an MBA in International Business and currently works as Associate Vice President of Cognizant in a Healthcare Market Leader role.

Barbara previously worked as Managing Sales Director for Accenture’s North American Healthcare and has served on several non-profit Boards as well as Boards for two startup companies.

Robert Gosselin

Robert, a retired Auto Production Engineering Designer for 28 years at General Motors and previous has 15 years as an Architectural Engineering Designer. While working full time he also obtains a Residential Builders, Heating, and a Real Estate Licenses he calls his hobbies.

Also elected and serviced on the Troy City Council 1993 – 1997, Elected to the Michigan House of Representatives 1999 – 2006 and Elected to the Oakland County Board of Commissioners 2006 -2016.

Janna Snyder

Janna brings years of business and community support to Hope Against Trafficking. Her passion for helping women of all ages maximize their opportunities arises from strong Human Resource and Business Management experience in both public and private sectors. She has developed position-sharing departments and job posting programs for independent businesses and Fortune 500 companies including Advance Mortgage-Citicorp, Chubb Pacific Indemnity, Kidder Peabody & Co., and LTV Aerospace. Janna’s training seminars for HR departments and Executive Search firms have helped many women move from ‘survive to thrive’ employment, while reducing turnover and associated costs.
     Snyder has served on Boards and Committees including Detroit Women’s Economic Club, Michigan Professional Women’s Network, Women of the Kirk, Kirk Presbyterian Pre School Board and the National Association of Personnel Consultants.
     She has a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Leadership from Central Michigan University. Janna grew up in Detroit and currently resides with her husband, Craig, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They have two grown children, Ross and Kellie.
     “I’m excited about collaborating with Hope Against Trafficking and their related recovery communities. Utilizing a vast network of local resources represents the very definition of networking at its best. Seeing local professionals and volunteers providing a full spectrum of health, education and tangible life skills training is amazing. These services empower victims to become productive, fulfilled members of society. Institutional and Correctional facility treatment programs alone traditionally provide short term, potentially expensive services with limited accountability. By collaborating, we can increase long term success rates and reach more victims.”

Lexie Schwarze

Lexie Schwarze is the Life Impact Director with Woodside Bible Church. Over the past 10 years, she has been able to take a brand-new mission ministry with a part-time staff of 1, to today a staff of 4 serving 14 campuses, with over 11,000 attendees weekly, 45 international missionaries, 5 global partnerships, 2 orphanages with over 100 children, and 5 local ministries.

Her passion for human trafficking started 6 years ago, during a layover in Bangkok, Thailand. She saw firsthand the red-light district where the very young being sold, she vowed to help stop the injustice of children being sold for sex. Upon returning to the states she became aware of the numbers sold into human trafficking here in the states. With a local focus on mine, she helped start Unshackled – a Voice for the Voiceless.

Erica Kohler

Erica Kohler is a graduate of Oakland University, with dual degrees in Education and Psychology. After several years teaching, Erica took time to raise and nurture her three daughters. Since then, Erica has rejoined the working world in business, sales, and real estate. She is a full-time real estate agent at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services in Birmingham, Michigan. Erica is passionate about helping people uncover false beliefs and heal from past wounds so they can realize the life God meant them to live. This is what drives her to join Monarch Wings.

Hannah McPeak

Hannah received her MA in Rehabilitation Counseling and worked with head trauma survivors providing clinical programming and therapy until she came home to be a stay at home mother of 3 young children. Over the last 7-8 years, she became passionate about forging change in the area of human trafficking.