An organization with a vision as big as the one being set in place at StreetLight Phoenix needs a large network of committed staff and volunteers. Each month, we will highlight a few of the folks who are behind the scenes, working diligently to help eradicate child sex slavery in Phoenix and around the nation.
Mike Buckles, Director of Resources
Mike Buckles Credits: Holly Craw
I am energized by interacting with people who are eager to share their gifts, talents and resources. My top five strengths are positivity, maximer, adaptability, connectedness and strategic. These along with a good dash of woo (winning others over) equip me for my role as recruiter and enabler of human resources.
My job is to recruit and engage volunteer staff at StreetLight. This also includes initial orientation and training of applicants and newly engaged staff.
Highlights include the amazing opportunity to meet the most passionate and committed people who are following a call from God to engage with our work. It is humbling to watch as the Lord directs people to us who are so obviously called and chosen by Him for the mission of Streetlight. Meeting so many who have experienced the trauma of abuse and who want to stand against this evil to protect and care for children is a privilege and blessing.
I look forward to seeing awareness of minor sex trafficking grow and bloom into a more compassionate and caring community where other children are prevented from having to experience this evil. At the same time I can see StreetLight being a beacon to the nation of how children are cared for and given a future of hope when a community, lead by faith, take this issue seriously and stand together. We WILL eradicate child sex slavery starting in this city!
Melodee Bosna, Director of Residential Services
Melodee Bosna Credits: Holly Craw
Strengths include: I’m a clinical social worker who has specialized in trauma, body image and self-esteem issues; I’m passionate, a hard worker and believe in the power of God’s redemption for every single story.
Scope of Job duties: Program development, Intake/Admissions, Group facilitation, mentorship and training of all direct care providers.
Highlights: seeing a survivor receive love, celebrating their milestones in a special and individualized way (birthdays, class completion, etc), mentoring an amazing group of caregivers, seeing God answer prayer in real time, etc.
Looking forward to…maternity leave! I’m kidding. I want to see the program grow, looking forward to opportunities to grow the program, integrate more opportunities for the daily and future success of the girls, working with a broader community base of support, etc.
Joyce Vogt, Interim Director of Communications
Joyce Vogt with her husband David Credits: Joyce Vogt
Strengths: Experience in operationalizing business processes, defining and gathering metrics to drive decision support, passion for collaboration and efficiency, leading teams toward desired outcomes, assessing team dynamics and organizational development.
Job duties: Design and deliver more efficient and effective communication strategies to internal teams; Develop best practices through agency collaboration; Support efforts to drive visibility of Streetlight and the general issue of Human Trafficking throughout the US.
Highlights of your job: I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the team at Streetlight. As part of building relationships, I’m getting to know their heart for this issue. So many are dedicating an immense amount of time and a part of their life to fight for these young victims. It takes a special kind of person to work with these fragile girls.
Looking forward to: I am looking forward to the launch of Campaign 13. This abolitionist campaign will not only provide folks the opportunity to donate to support Streetlight’s mission, but will also encourage that they engage their friends and start the conversation on what it means to choose freedom. We talk about exercising our freedoms in this Country and yet, there are so many today that are NOT free! They are being exploited in their vulnerability… vulnerability like poverty, homelessness, physical disability, emotional fragility! I hope that more people can learn about this issue and begin to engage on a whole different level. If we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem…I want to eliminate this problem!
Bob Battillo, Director of Security/Facilities/In Kind Donations
What strengths do you bring to the position
- 20 years of security experience and 5 years of shelter experience. And the determination to right an injustice!!
Basic scope of job duties
- Recruit, develop and train all campus security. Manage the day to day facilities operations. Mange all In Kind Donations
Give a couple of highlights of your job so far
- Being able to help get the safe house licensed and opened. Also just being able to know that I’m able to help right an Injustice.
What are some things you look forward to in the coming months for your role at StreetLight?
- Bringing awareness to the issue and the day the safe houses like Streetlight aren’t needed anymore because we have eradicated child sex slavery!!!
Holly Craw, Director of Communications
Strengths include: I am able to see the big picture and develop steps needed to make the goal achievable. I love working with people and communicating about the horrendous issue of sex trafficking. I desire to create teams of abolitionists who will carry the message of the fight against child sex slavery out to their networks so we as a local and national and global community can stand together in the battle.
Scope of Job duties: Oversight of all communication and media pieces
Highlights: Understanding more of the depth of the sex trafficking issues and seeing the passion that is stirred in people’s hearts to address the needs, the demand, the care of the victims, and ongoing prevention.
I am looking forward to: Getting more involved in the awareness side of the issues, networking with a fabulous community of abolitionists, and working toward measurable change in the root causes of human trafficking, particularly child sex slavery.
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