2019-2020 Graduate Fellow
Simone Jaeckl, RN, MSN, is a third year PhD student in the School of Nursing at University of Virginia. Her research is situated at the intersection of health, law and gender-based violence with a special interest in human trafficking prevention and intervention, both domestically and abroad. She holds a law degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and was engaged in the prosecution of sex trafficking and related crimes.
Her dissertation explores laws, protocols and processes in place for addressing sex trafficking of children in the educational setting in Virginia, and aims to make recommendations for a robust protocol for school systems to implement.