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Draining the Cyberswamp: Preventing Child Sexual Exploitation in the Digital World
March 9, 2020 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
Join us on March 9, 2020, for an important presentation on Draining the Cyberswamp: Preventing Child Sexual Exploitation in the Digital World. Children are facing serious threats from predators online. Donna Rice Hughes will help us understand these threats and what can be done to protect our children and confront online pornography, child pornography, child stalking, and sexual predation.
Monday, March 9, 2020
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm MT
Colorado Christian University
Leprino Hall 170
8787 W. Alameda Ave. Lakewood, CO 80226
About Donna Rice Hughes
Donna Rice Hughes, President and CEO of Enough Is Enough®(EIE) is an internationally known Internet safety expert, author, speaker and film producer. Since 1994, she has been a pioneering leader on the frontlines of U.S. efforts to make the Internet safer for children and families by implementing a three-pronged strategy of the public, the technology industry and legal community sharing the responsibility to protect children online. This strategy has been adopted by industry and governments worldwide.
Under her leadership, EIE created the Internet Safety 101 Program with U.S. Department Of Justice. She is the Executive Producer, and host of the Internet Safety 101 DVD series which was reformatted into the Internet Safety 101 Television Series for PBS and earned an Emmy Award and an Emmy nomination for Donna as the Program’s host.
She developed and spearheaded the “National Safe Wi-Fi” Campaign” calling on Corporate America to filter porn and child pornography on public Wi-Fi. As a result, both McDonald’s and Starbucks are now filtering WiFi all of their company owned stores in America.
Hughes also spearheaded EIE’s bi-partisan Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge (2016) which was signed by then Candidate Trump, and supported by Hillary Clinton; The Governor’s Pledge led by S.C. Governor McMaster and the State Attorneys General Pledge co-led by AG Wilson (SC) and AG Racine (DC) are being rolled out nationally in 2020.
She has given thousands of media interviews on the topic, testified numerous times before Congress, and most recently won 2013 Women In Technology Award for Social Impact and the 2014 Professional Women in Advocacy Excellence In Advocacy Award for “Veteran Practitioner”. She also received a Senate appointment to serve on the Child Online Protection Act Commission.