Erika Gonzalez is a Training and Technical Assistance Senior Attorney and Program Coordinator at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), in Los Angeles CA.  Erika is a national expert in legal remedies access for survivors of all forms of human trafficking. She co-founded and continues to lead the Office for Victims of Crime’s first training and technical assistance program dedicated to legal remedies for trafficking survivors at CAST. Through this program, she trains attorneys and social service providers across the U.S. on issues of immigration, victims’ rights, criminal record relief and ethical considerations. At Opening Doors, Inc. in Sacramento, CA, Erika assumed the low-bono immigration program focused on assisting victims of crime with immigration relief. As a staff attorney at CAST and Opening Doors, she represented crime victims in immigration, criminal victims’ rights, and criminal record relief matters. She is the co-author of several advisories on T visas and other forms of relief. She graduated from the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and the University of California, Berkeley. Erika is currently a fellow for the New Leaders Council, Class of 2021.

Vanita Fleckinger is the owner of Sharma Fleckinger Law in Florence, Kentucky and focuses her practice on criminal defense, family law, and immigration matters. Ms. Fleckinger previously served as the Chief Assistant Commonwealth Attorney for the 17th Judicial District of Kentucky. Ms. Fleckinger is licensed in the state of Kentucky and is a member of AILA, the Midsouth Chapter, and the Immigration and Nationality Law Section of the Kentucky Bar Association.