Sara
Crowe
Sara Crowe has spent twelve years working on the front lines of a data-driven fight to end sex and labor trafficking. She is currently the Director of the Strategic Initiative on Financial Systems at Polaris, a leading anti-trafficking non-profit. In this role, she leads Polaris’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which leverages the reach, expertise, and motivation of the global financial sector to identify trafficking operations through their financial footprints, support criminal cases that mitigate the burden placed on victims to testify, and facilitate the financial restitution process — ultimately decreasing the profitability of trafficking while increasing accountability for the traffickers. The FIU generates new insights through a combination of in-house research and collaborative efforts with the financial services industry, survivors, and law enforcement. Sara also works to bolster the financial resiliency of vulnerable populations and trafficking survivors through financial inclusion initiatives and advocates for responsible financing practices to incentivize businesses to implement strong worker protections.