Ben Forta

As a girl living in the Bay Area, where 40% of all of America’s sex trafficking takes place, 19-year-old Rebecca Dharmapalan is working to make her community of Oakland, California the first place child sex trafficking is eradicated. Rebecca won second place documentary in the 2014 Adobe Youth Voices awards for “International Boulevard“, a film meant to raise awareness about this issue. She was recently profiled in Mashable and Huffington Post, and launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund her first feature film as a follow up to her documentary. This week, she will about speak about her mission at the Ashoka Future Forum in Washington DC and TEDxTeen in New York. Rebecca’s mission is an incredible example to adults and teenagers alike, and we’ve posted an interview with her on the Adobe Corporate Responsibility blog.