Defending Human Dignity
Meet Our Staff
The team at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation is comprised of passionate, talented individuals who come from a variety of different backgrounds. NCOSE is passionate about building a diverse team committed to a world that is free from sexual abuse and exploitation.
We love people and fight for the human dignity of all. Every team member shares these principles and hopes for a world where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Chief Executive Officer
Dawn Hawkins is CEO of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, the leading organization exposing the connections between all forms of sexual exploitation, including sex trafficking, prostitution, pornography, and child sexual abuse. Dawn’s energy, creativity and mobilization skills are deployed to build a world free from sexual violence, with freedom and human dignity for all.
Dawn is deeply committed to bipartisan public policy solutions at the federal and state level. Her issue expertise, visionary initiatives, and innovative strategy have led to groundbreaking change in the legislative arena and in multimillion-dollar corporate policies. She has also envisioned and created a Law Center to challenge sexual exploitation profiteers in the courts.
Dawn has been instrumental in re-imaging the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. She has centered the need to address sex buyer demand for commercial sex, has severely weakened the mainstream pornography industry, and is leading efforts to bring more accountability to technology platforms for child safety.
Kindsey Pentecost Chadwick
Interim President
With over two decades in the criminal justice and anti-trafficking sectors, Kindsey Pentecost Chadwick has made significant contributions to combatting sexual abuse and exploitation, leading to changes that span the globe. She co-founded TYLA (Turn Your Life Around), a prostitution diversion initiative, and established the Selah Freedom Sex Trade support group. Certified with the Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute for Human Trafficking, Kindsey also served on the Circuit 12 Coalition Against Human Trafficking’s leadership. Kindsey has written extensively on these issues, including a chapter in “Human Trafficking, A Systemwide Public Safety and Community Approach” and articles in respected journals. She has helped raise over $20 million to combat global human trafficking. Kindsey holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from Grand Valley University.Â