Connect 2 Change empowers women survivors of sex trafficking with business education, AI training, coaching, and a community that supports their ventures.

“My story is their story, and when women see what I was able to build, they begin to believe they can too.”— Emily Sanders, Founding Executive Director
More than AI and business education. Personal development, mindset work, and strengths-based coaching are woven through every session, so the growth reaches deeper than any curriculum. That inner work runs right alongside the practical skills the whole way through, so what women build here they can absorb, own, and sustain long after class ends.
Discover the Academy →Before budgets and business plans, we begin with her strengths, mindset, and belief in what she is capable of creating.
Turn powerful technology into an everyday business tool.
Validate the idea, know the customer, and understand the money.
The standard job-to-stability path keeps failing the women we serve. The numbers show why.
of survivors live on less than $25,000 a year, even years after escaping.
have faced financial abuse: no savings, no credit, no safety net.
is how quickly many return to aid, because a low-wage job was never enough.
One home for the growing Connect 2 Change media presence, and for the news, research, and insight shaping women's economic opportunity.
Coverage, conversations, videos, awards, and media resources from across the Connect 2 Change story.
Explore C2C in the Media →Curated news, original context, and accessible data across technology, entrepreneurship, trafficking prevention, and economic freedom.
This signature Connect 2 Change insight turns information into meaning: what changed, who it affects, and what opportunity or action may come next.
Curated local entrepreneurial events, trainings, and competitions, updated weekly in partnership with StartupSac, so the women we serve never miss a room worth being in.
Help women survivors gain business tools, technology, coaching, and the support to keep moving toward financial freedom.
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