Caroline Harmon-Darrow, PhD, MSW, LMSW, is a Senior Community Program Specialist in the

Prevention of Adolescent Risks Initiative at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work, where she collaborates on several projects related to the Maryland Human Trafficking Initiative. She coordinates training for child welfare workers, pediatricians and other medical providers, law

enforcement professionals, and members of the community about preventing child trafficking, and engaging with survivors. Her research and scholarship center on reducing violence, victimization, and incarceration, including through a graduate

research assistantship with the National Institute of Justice, and serving as co-chair of the Grand Challenges of Social Work Smart Decarceration Committee’s Policing Work Group. A community mediator of 24 years, she trains, mentors, and evaluates other mediators, and has held leadership

positions in local, state and national conflict resolution organizations, following work with survivors of intimate partner violence.