Lisa Thompson
Vice President of Research
Lisa Thompson serves as Vice President of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s Research Institute, where she oversees NCOSE’s strategic planning for increased public understanding of a wide range of sexual exploitation related issues. Lisa conducts analysis regarding the impacts of sexual objectification, pornography, prostitution, sexual trafficking, consumer-level demand for prostitution, and other sexual exploitation topics on sex trade survivors and larger society.
Lisa has given numerous presentations sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, has facilitated training events for a diverse range of audiences, and has written about sexual trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation for a variety of publications. She is a contributing author to Hands that Heal: International Curriculum for Caregivers of Trafficking Survivors, as well as the book Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Europe Latin America, North America, and Global in which she contributed chapters about the use of torture by pimps, as well as the policy conflicts between sex trafficking abolitionists and HIV/AIDS advocates. She has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress.
Lisa earned her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Western Kentucky University and a Master of Arts in Leadership, Public Policy and Social Issues from Union Institute and University. She has worked in the field of anti-sexual exploitation for nearly 25 years.
