Rachel Moran

Rachel Moran is pioneering international progress in policy and collaborative advocacy in order to actualize robust solutions to sexual exploitation. Her work has also been endorsed by Jane Fonda, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and many others.

Prior to joining the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation—a division of NCOSE—Rachel founded and led SPACE International—an international organization, formed to give voice to women who have survived the abusive reality of prostitution.

She is also author of the bestselling book ‘Paid For – My Journey Through Prostitution,’ regarded by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon as “the best work by anyone on prostitution ever.” “Paid For” has been published in more than a dozen countries and numerous languages including German, Italian, Korean and French with a Spanish translation currently underway. Ms. Moran was prostituted for seven years in Dublin and across Ireland, beginning when she was 15 years old. Ms. Moran later completed her education and received a degree in Journalism from Dublin City University and a Masters in Creative Writing from University College Dublin. She first addressed a crowd in February of 2011, which gathered at the launch of the Turn Off The Red Light campaign urging Ireland to adopt the Nordic model.

As an abolitionist, Ms. Moran was instrumental in bringing the Abolitionist (Nordic) Model to Ireland in two separate processes on either side of the Irish border, and works centrally within the international survivors movement, which calls for the implementation of the Abolitionist Model worldwide. She has spoken at the United Nations, the European Parliament, Westminster Parliament and many other global institutions and prominent places of learning.