In our 10th podcast series, “Intersections in Health Care and Human Trafficking”, NAPNAP uses a multidisciplinary lens to explore the impact of human trafficking on children and adolescents. Human trafficking is a complex and pervasive issue which is best addressed by tapping into the skills and expertise across many disciplines and people. Forensics, police, legal, social work, research, and survivors of human trafficking all have a place in addressing human trafficking.

Our host for this series is Jason Spees, MSN, MaOM, APRN, L.Ac., FNP-C, Dipl. Ac. & C.H. Jason is a human trafficking educator and the chair of NAPNAP Partners Alliance for Children in Trafficking (ACT).

This week’s episode will look at the legal side of human trafficking in prosecution with our guest Brody Burks, assistant attorney general at the Office of the Attorney General in Texas. For the last 15 years, Brody has worked in public service for the state of Texas as an assistant district attorney, criminal justice policy advisor to the governor, chief of staff to Commissioner Bobby Janecka at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and now as assistant attorney general prosecuting human trafficking. He also serves as legislative liaison for the division and point of contact for stakeholder groups. Additionally, Brody has served as the governor’s appointee to the Interstate Compact on Adult Offender Supervision and has been a trainer and mentor through the Texas District and County Attorney’s Association. He's a graduate of Austin College and the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, two children and a rescue pit bull.