Barbara Amaya

Barbara Amaya is the author of the award-winning memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Lost Innocence, Modern-Day Slavery and Transformation, and the comic book series The Destiny of Zoe Carpenter.

Barbara Amaya ran away at the age of 12 after being abused by family members. She was taken in on the streets of Washington, DC by a couple who seemed nice, but ended up selling her into human trafficking. She was used for months and then sold to a man named Moses who took her to New York and continued to traffic her for more than 10 years.

Now Barbara fights for other victims of human trafficking and to changes policies that treat victims as criminals.