Aharon Cohen on Clubhouse

Bio

Driven to combat injustice, slavery, and human trafficking, I have drawn upon my military training, technology access, and leadership skills to launch programs to recover children who have fallen victim to modern slavery. For a decade, I have built a global coalition, raised funds, and spearheaded investigations and rescue operations throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. Working with government agencies, I provide training, program administration, and mission leadership, resulting in large numbers of rescues and rehabilitation operations across many regions.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, I have served as a senior policy advisor and program leader for the Bexar County Commissioners Court (Texas). Working with the emergency powers, joint task forces and operations command, I write policy and implement programs to respond to the numerous medical and economic hardships experienced because of the pandemic.

Among these, I worked with commissioners to write grants to procure an Urban farm that produces thousands of pounds of fresh food for citizens experiencing food insecurity. Assessing the specific needs of marginalized communities, I authored and coordinated the social services operational plan across central Texas to allocate millions of dollars of support to provide food, shelter, and medical attention for seniors and vulnerable people, displaced immigrants, including the undocumented population.

Other successes of my career ►

✓ Spearheaded a US/Mexico bilateral program that resulted in the successful retrieval of hundreds of children lost to slavery, securing housing, food, education, and therapy programs to help end their cycle of poverty. Authored policy changes regarding for profit child detention centers to implement more humane solutions. Today, many of those children are thriving in secondary and collegiate learning institutions.
✓ Named a #1 Amazon bestselling author in the Human Rights category for Slave Hunter – The Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking
✓ Awarded the US Congressional Certificate of Merit by Congresswoman Linda Sanchez for taking great risks to rescue and rehabilitate victims of trafficking
✓ Recipient of the Prize for Humanity