As the CEO and Executive Director of BEST, Dr. Foot leverages her expertise to guide organizations’ leaders and equip them with tools to implement socially responsible strategies for interrupting human trafficking and ultimately preventing it. Over the course of her career, Dr. Foot has been employed by and consulted for organizations in the public, private, and civil society sectors, across the US and internationally. She is passionate about ending exploitation and excels at identifying and cultivating effective organizational and collaborative practices for countering human trafficking and helping leaders implement them. While a fulltime professor of communication at the University of Washington, Dr. Foot engaged in action-oriented research to counter human trafficking. For over 15 years she has led international teams of experts from academia, government agencies, businesses, and nonprofits to coproduce practical knowledge and implement it. Dr. Foot is the author or editor of four books, including the award-winning Collaborating Against Human Trafficking: Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices.