Shared Hope International
Stephen Padre has a diverse work experience in communications and public relations. Stephen has worked as the Director of Communications and Public Relations at Shared Hope International since 2023. Prior to that, they served as the Website and Social Media Coordinator at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church starting in 2022. In 2020, they were a member of the management board at Loaves & Fishes, responsible for communications.
Stephen also worked as a Freelance Writer at the World Council of Churches and as an Editor at CopyPress. Stephen held the position of Senior Communications Manager at Primary Care Collaborative from 2020 to 2022. Previously, they worked as an Editor at CopyPress and as the Communications, Media, and Marketing Manager at the National WIC Association.
Stephen's work experience also includes the role of Publications Editor at Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and Communications Consultant at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church. In these positions, they contributed to developing communication strategies, improving materials, and designing websites.
Overall, Stephen Padre has gained extensive experience in communications, public relations, and marketing through their various roles in nonprofit organizations and freelance work.
Stephen Padre earned their Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Boston University from 1991 to 1995. Later in 2010, they attended The Johns Hopkins University to study Communications, although it is not specified if they obtained a degree in that field.
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Shared Hope International strives to prevent the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restore victims of sex slavery, and bring justice to vulnerable women and children. We envision a world passionately opposed to sex trafficking and a community committed to restoring survivors to lives of purpose, value and choice – one life at a time. In 1998, while still a member of the U.S. Congress, Linda Smith traveled to Falkland Road in Mumbai, India—one of the worst brothel districts in the world. The hopeless faces of desperate women and children forced into prostitution compelled Linda to found Shared Hope International. SHI was established to support shelter and service creation for sex trafficking survivors using a comprehensive model for restoration. Today, Shared Hope works to Prevent sex trafficking through training, including our nationally renowned JuST Conference, and our volunteer training program, Ambassadors of Hope. Shared Hope's Restoration initiatives support partners in 4 countries who work to serve and empower survivors of sex trafficking. And finally, Shared Hope is committed to Bringing Justice to perpetrators of sex trafficking, and to get justice for survivors. Shared Hope regularly advocates at the state and federal level for strong laws to protect victims of child sex trafficking and hold perpetrators accountable. SHI's Justice initiatives include the Protected Innocence Challenge, a yearly report card and legal analyses, examining the strength of each state's laws to fight child sex trafficking, and the Stop the inJuSTice Campaign, designed to engage the public & lawmakers in improving our laws to address domestic minor sex trafficking.