Sabra Boyd: A Workaholic in Progress

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Privacy is Safety: Amazon's Tech Against Trafficking Summit
[ contains sensitive content about human trafficking ]
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Child Trafficking, Confidential Police Informants, and Child Welfare
How do you call CPS on CPS?
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How AmeriCorps Made Me Homeless
I joined AmeriCorps out of desperation when I graduated during the 2008 recession. I hope Gen Z doesn’t make the same mistake during COVID's dismal job…
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Listen Closely: How the true crime industrial complex has broken our brains
On the Depp v. Heard trial, the politics of crying, the unique misogyny actresses face, and the weaponized fears of white women
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Homelessness And The Tourism Space Race
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
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How big tech and AI are putting trafficking survivors at risk
The tech industry’s privileging of ‘safety over privacy’ could get the most vulnerable killed
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January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day, but awareness of what exactly?
Each year on January 11, Human Trafficking Awareness Day is recognized across the U.S. This year, we should examine what we are actually building…
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#FreeBritney, Labor Laws, and How to Escape Abusive Parents
Before I was a homeless teenager, I was a child actor in the 90s with parents who circumvented child labor laws, the Coogan Act, and SAG-AFTRA union…
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Better than a Pulitzer
Last week, Vice published my article about second chance employers and the barriers people face when looking for work after prison.
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SCOTUS’s Grants Pass v. Johnson: Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Poverty
Asleep on the top bunk of a homeless youth shelter in Portland, Oregon, I woke gasping for air.
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The Story Behind the Story
Last month the New York Times published my story about a 2,700 mile bike race, climate change, floods and fires.
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Kyrsten Sinema and the Joke About Bootstraps
My journey down the rabbit hole of trying to understand how someone who also grew up homeless could possibly vote against raising the minimum wage
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