
Michael Levi
Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
Associate Professor, Texas Christian University
Dr. Vanessa Bouché is an Associate Professor of Political Science at TCU. She has been a principal investigator on several federally-funded human trafficking projects from the Department of Justice and USAID totaling over $800,000. She is the principle investigator of HumanTraffickingData.org, a searchable database of federally-prosecuted human trafficking cases in the U.S.
Dr. Bouché has also conducted public opinion research on human trafficking in the U.S., Moldova, and Albania, and designed and deployed trauma informed surveys with survivors of human trafficking in the U.S. and Honduras. She consults with a variety of organizations, and has been an invited speaker by dozens of agencies, including the United States Consulates in Mumbai and Kolkata, the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, and the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime.
She serves on the board of directors for Traffick911 and is the co-founder of Savhera, an essential oil company that provides dignified employment to sex trafficking survivors. She was the 2018 recipient of the Young Leader Award (Texas Women’s Foundation), and the 2019 recipient of the Hero Award (Unlikely Heroes) and the Great Woman of Texas (Fort Worth Business Press).