Moments captured from our 3rd Annual CO 2026 Summit. Thank you all who attended, presented, supported and/or prayed. Each year is different and again, this year lit a fire and inspired hearts to get involved with bold action steps. Within U2S and out; new friendships were formed and big ideas took hold.

So empowering knowing we are not alone in this fight!

Meet the Presenters:

Sosamma Samuel-Burnett, J.D.

Founder/President of G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice.

Sosamma has 30+ yrs experience as a human rights advocate & policy professional, 20+ yrs as a university professor, and nearly 40 years leading nonprofit organizations.  She holds a BSFS from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service & Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of Minnesota Law School.  She has served on many Boards and Advisory Groups, including as Board Director and Board Chair for Agape International Missions, a leading international anti-human trafficking organization, for 13 years.  She advises many organizations on justice, human rights, leadership, and faith, and is an international commentator & speaker.  Sosamma has received numerous other recognitions in CA, MN, and DC through academic, business, and policy organizations.  Sosamma and her husband own Micah Place, the home of G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice.  She and her family reside in Loveland, CO.

 Investigator Laura Knudsen

Fort Collins Police Services Criminalist - Cyber Crime Unit 

Laura has been working for over 17 years at FCPS in various capacities including as a police officer in patrol and on the Special Operations Group as well as a detective in the Crimes Against Persons Unit and Cyber Crime Unit. Since 2023, she has been working as a Criminalist in Cyber Crime working solely on child exploitation and human trafficking investigations. She has been heavily involved in working these types of cases for over a decade in other units and received specialized training in these areas by the FBI, International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators, and the Internet Crimes Against Children task force. Currently, she instructs police cadets at the Fort Collins Police Academy on the topic of Human Trafficking and is recognized as an expert witness in Human Trafficking and Pimping investigations for the Larimer County 8^th Judicial District. 

Hannah Morales- Survivor

Hannah is a survivor of human trafficking and an advocate working to break the silence around generational trauma and abuse. She is the author of It Stops Here with Me: Breaking Generational Trauma Through Truth and Healing, and she speaks openly about her own journey toward truth, healing, and justice through her faith in Jesus Christ. Hannah shares her story as part of the fight to stop human trafficking and protect others from what she survived.

Tina Baz

Human Trafficking Program Director | Legislative Liaison

The Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC)

 Tina is Counter Human Trafficking Program Director and Legislative Liaison for ARC - The Association for the Recovery of Children. She has a life-long history of involvement in philanthropic causes in the US and South America. Since 2014 she has been professionally engaged in combating sex trafficking in the United States, specializing in child sex trafficking advocacy, intervention, victim location and recovery, and emergency assistance for individuals exploited through gang, organized crime, familial, and ritual-abuse trafficking.

Bazzel Baz:

Founder and President

Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC)

Baz is known as “the Patron Saint for Missing Kids.” He is a former CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Paramilitary Case Officer, recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal, former counter-terrorism officer in the United States Marine Corps and a graduate of The Citadel. He currently contracts as a “life guarantor” for people entering high threat environments.

In 1993 Baz founded the Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC), an organization comprised of former and active intelligence, military, and law enforcement personnel dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited American children in foreign and domestic locations. In 2019, on invitation of the White House and DOJ, Baz introduced ARC’s legislative initiative involving severe penalties for those who sexually exploit any child under the age of 18 in the U.S.

Lisa Pewe

Lisa, has been an equine professional for over 40 years. Lisa joined the equine therapeutic community in 2007 when she became the Equine Director and later the Program Director for a PATH of Life Ranch.  Lisa rebuilt and managed the riding and equine care and management programs for instructors and volunteers.  She also pioneered equine assisted mental health programs for first responders, children with autism and sex-trafficked youth.