An Indian-American woman has been honoured with a Presidential award by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo for her extraordinary contribution towards combatting human trafficking in Houston.<\/p>\n
Minal Patel Davis, special advisor on human trafficking to Houston mayor Sylvester Turner, received the \u2018Presidential Medal for Combating Human Trafficking\u2019 in the White House last week at a ceremony also attended by president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was unbelievable,\u201d said Davis after winning the award, the country\u2019s highest honour in the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents came here from India. I was the first one in my family born in the United States, so to end up in the Mayor\u2019s office a few years ago, and then to now end up in the White House, it was unbelievable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Appointed in July 2015, Davis has made a local impact on human trafficking in America\u2019s fourth largest city from a policy-level perspective and by helped in advancing systems change.<\/p>\n
She is currently implementing Mayor Turner\u2019s Anti-Human Trafficking Strategic Plan, which is the first comprehensive municipal response to human trafficking by a US city.<\/p>\n
Davis has spoken at several local, national and international panels and presented Houston city\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n
She is a past speaker at the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit and recently travelled to India and Canada at the request of the State Department to discuss municipal leadership in trafficking with the government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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