Laila Mickelwait

Laila Mickelwait is the Founder/CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, the Founder of the global Traffickinghub movement, and the national bestselling author of Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking (Pengiuin Random House, 2024). She has been researching and combating the injustice of sex trafficking since 2006 and is a leading expert in the field.

The Traffickinghub movement is a decentralized and diverse global effort to hold Pornhub accountable for enabling and profiting from mass sexual crime and implement policies that prevent criminal sexual abuse across the Internet. The Traffickinghub petition has been signed by over 2.3 million people from every country. Over 600 organizations and hundreds of survivors have participated in the movement that resulted in Pornhub being forced to take down 91% of the website in what the Financial Times called “probably the biggest takedown of content in Internet history.”