Lydia Aletraris is a Social Science Research Scholar at the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab with extensive experience designing partnership-based trafficking research. She coordinated the Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum (PRIF), a global initiative that brought together scholars to test methodologies for measuring human trafficking prevalence, with studies conducted in Brazil, Costa Rica, Morocco, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Tunisia. Aletraris played a key role in developing standardized trafficking statistical definitions and trafficking indicators, and has served as Co-Investigator on trafficking research in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Senegal. Most recently, she served as Co-Principal Investigator on a labor trafficking study of youth and young adults in Malawi and Zambia.
