Imua Alliance
Kaneohe, HI, United States
Kris Coffield is the founder and Executive Director of Imua Alliance, a non-profit victim service provider for survivors of human trafficking located in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has spearheaded the organization’s restorative assistance for over 200 survivors of sexual exploitation, while working to enact legislative reforms that strengthen the state’s anti-trafficking continuum of care.
He is also the Chief of Staff for Rep. Jeanné Kapela at the Hawaii State House of Representatives, where he is responsible for managing a public policy agenda that focuses on climate resilience, economic equality, tax fairness, educational equity, racial and gender justice, and civil rights. Previously, he championed efforts to increase school funding and restorative education programming as a government relations specialist with the Hawaii State Teachers Association.
He was awarded a 2021-2022 Landecker Democracy Fellowship by Humanity In Action and the Landecker Democracy Foundation. During the fellowship, he launched Platforming Peace, a movement to counter the digital reproduction of social inequality and authoritarianism. He is developing communal interventions that respond to the proliferation of structural discrimination and hate speech in cyberspace. He was also awarded a 2022-2023 Racial Equity Grant from Humanity In Action to develop an anti-racist social media toolkit that allows digital citizens to coordinate networked communities of care that respond to online expressions of racial violence.
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Human Trafficking: Protecting Humanity Across the Seas, Skies, and Lands
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM US HST