Registration is available here. 

7:30 - 9:00 - Registration Open

8:00 - For Interested Attendees: 101 Human Trafficking Pre-Session

9:00 - Opening Remarks - Human Trafficking State of the State - Attorney General Hilgers and Federal Partners

9:45 - Break

10:00 - Trafficking, Trauma, Resiliency & Evidence-based Hope - The Honorable Robert R. Lung

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Evil Among Us - A Human Trafficking Case Study - Homeland Security Investigations - Christina Worster

2:30 - Break

2:45 - From Coercion to Control: Exploring the Continuum of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking - Panel

3:30 - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Child Trafficking: Lessons from Child Advocacy Centers in Nebraska - Panel

4:30 - Closing Remarks - Attorney General Hilgers

Judge Robert Lung (ret.) served as a judicial officer for over twenty-two years in Colorado until he retired from the bench in 2025 and began his own domestic relations mediation practice. He also provides presentations nationally and internationally on issues such as human trafficking, childhood trauma and resiliency to an exceptionally diverse audience base including the military, the medical field, the educational field, judiciaries, human services, faith-based organizations, mental health professionals and law enforcement.  

In 2016 he was appointed to serve on the Colorado Human Trafficking Council, in 2017 he was Presidentially appointed to the National Advisory Council on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth, and in 2018 he was Presidentially appointed to the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.  

In 2021 he served as an Adjunct Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and taught Human Rights Lawyering. 

In 2023 he had the honor of testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability regarding the passage of Federal anti-trafficking law. 

In 2024 he was the on-site lived experience expert to the Blue Campaign for the filming of a PSA on familial trafficking. 

And in 2025 he co-created the Survivor’s Academy, a five-day conference on human trafficking, thru the John J. Brunetti Foundation Human Trafficking Academy at St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami. He has also served as a consultant with Office for Victims of Crime under the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office on Trafficking in Persons under the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under the U.S. State Department, the Blue Campaign under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). 

In his “free time” he works on writing his first book and he endeavors to keep up with his two adopted sons in hiking and downhill mountain biking.

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The Nebraska Human Trafficking Task Force Summit will be held at Nebraska Innovation Conference Center at 2021 Transformation Drive. 

The Summit will start at 9:00 a.m and ends at 5:00 p.m.

Paid parking will be available. Attendees may consider downloading the Passport Parking app.  A parking map is available below. 

There is no cost to attend or register. However, free parking is not available. Please see the parking information on this page. 

The Summit is open to any individuals actively combating human trafficking in Nebraska.

Lunch will not be provided.

A hotel block will be reserved at the Scarlett Hotel across the street from the Summit. 

Book your group rate for Nebraska Attorney General Human Trafficking Summit Room Block

You will find the information for your online reservation link above.

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For questions, please contact George Welch at: george.welch@nebraska.gov or 402-471-1909.