Kate Price, PhD

Affiliation: Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College

Kate Price is an associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, a gender-based research institute at Wellesley College. She is also an advisor for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Child Sex Trafficking Expert Working Group and Global Platform for Child Exploitation Policy, and an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center. An internationally recognized child sex trafficking expert, Price has influenced the passage of state-level children's human rights legislation and United Nations child sex trafficking policy. She lectures regularly at academic conferences, universities, and non-governmental organization meetings, and her work has been published in various scholarly journals. Price is the recipient of a My Life, My Choice Beacon of Light Award, a Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize medal, a Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award from the International Centers for Research on Women, and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship. She has worked extensively with trauma pioneers Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score, in which Price is featured, and Dr. Judith Herman. Price received her master's degree in Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons College and earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Research Interests:

• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) including Child Sex Trafficking, Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAM)

• Family-controlled CSEC

• Gender

• Juvenile Criminal Legal System

• Federal- and State-level CSEC Policy

• Mixed Methods Research Methodology