This is the next in a series of interviews with individuals working to address human trafficking. You’ll meet students and educators, parents and professionals whose voices will give readers a new and better understanding of this crime while teaching us how to respond more effectively to it.
Barry Jurgensen is a history teacher at Arlington High School in Arlington, Nebraska.
On June 1, he will begin a 500-mile journey from Nebraska City, NE to Chicago, Illinois that is being called, Walk Forever Free. Barry is retracing the foot steps of two women that escaped slavery in 1858. He’ll stop at Underground Railroad historic sites along the way to teach about their amazing odyssey and raise awareness of contemporary slavery. Barry also strives to raise $50 for every mile he walks to support human trafficking prevention education and teacher training in schools. He hopes to finish the walk on July 2.
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