Presenter:
Davina Durgana, PhD
International Human Rights Statistician and Human Trafficking Professor

Virtual Café Sci: Finding Today’s Slaves: Statistics in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
Mon., Jan. 4
7–9 pm

Dr. Davina Durgana is an award-winning international human rights statistician who has developed leading global models to assess risk and vulnerability to modern slavery. On Jan. 4, Dr. Durgana will cover how a decade of increasing research on modern slavery led us to the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery and our fight against systemic gender inequality as a key driver to modern slavery. Dr. Durgana will also share more information about the UN Subscribed to Slavery campaign. You can learn more about that campaign here. 

About Dr. Davina Durgana:
Dr. Durgana is a Report Co-Author and Senior Statistician on the Walk Free Initiative’s Global Slavery Index and Senior Multilateral Engagement Adviser for the Mideroo Foundation. She is an American Statistical Association Statistical Advocate of the Year, internationally elected Vice Chair of Statistics without Borders, and a Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Science for 2017 for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and human trafficking.
Dr. Durgana is affiliated faculty at National Defense University, senior visiting faculty at Oxford University’s Green Templeton College, and served as Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development at SIT Graduate Institute in D.C. In that role, she served as Lead Faculty on the Inclusive and Human Security Graduate Certificate program with the Institute for Inclusive Security where she pioneered course offerings in effects of irregular welfare and conflict resolution. Dr. Durgana was selected as a Google Fellow for Technology and Social Change for her work in human trafficking and technology. She was also awarded with the Trafficking in America Task Force Award for Service for her contributions to the Anti-Trafficking Field in the United States and was named as a Disruption Awards Foundation Fellow for 2018. She serves on several expert groups for the United Nations, the Department of Justice, and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Durgana is also an inaugural 2020-2022 Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science to motivate woman and girls to pursue STEM careers. You can learn more about how Dr. Durgana’s passion for math developed into a career as a human rights statistician:

About our Virtual Café Sci:
The event is FREE to attend, but preregistration is required! Carnegie Science Center would like to continue to offer programs like Café Sci, Women in STEM, and others. Please consider making a donation when you register. Once you sign up, you’ll get an email confirmation with instructions on how to enter the event. Have a question for Dr. Durgana? You’ll be able to type your questions in the Q&A section during the presentation!