The San Francisco Bay Area, host of the 2016 Super Bowl, is both a hub for human trafficking and the source of some of the best ideas for how to respond to the problem of modern day slavery.
The Super Bowl may not be the human trafficking hotbed some have claimed it to be, but the annual football championship game, seen by over 100 million people, has become a platform for activism to draw attention to sex trafficking and other forms of modern slavery.
More than 20 million people are enslaved throughout the world — in sex trafficking, domestic servitude, child labor and other forms of slavery. Anti-trafficking groups work every day — not just on Super Bowl Sunday — to identify and prosecute traffickers, and tech entrepreneurs from places such as Silicon Valley have helped develop new weapons that are aiding in the fight.