Jamie Beck’s life was changed after she attended a human trafficking awareness training session hosted by the Lawyers Club of San Diego, where she learned that trafficking survivors are in dire need of legal representation in civil cases.
After attending the training, Beck, who was an attorney at law firm Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP at the time, helped the Lawyers Club launch what is now known as the Human Trafficking Collaborative.
Jaime Beck left private practice to launch several efforts aimed at helping human trafficking survivors, including founding legal nonprofit Free to Thrive.
Through the collaborative, Beck found that California’s criminal record relief law for trafficking survivors was too limited and pushed the state to pass a vacatur law that would allow survivors to have criminal convictions related to their trafficking completely cleared from their records.
California passed a vacatur law for trafficking survivors in 2016, but the state didn’t have…
