Everyone Deserves Their Springtime

Everyone Deserves Their Springtime

This oil painting on canvas submitted by Andrew Johnstone, Nancy O'Malley, and Regina Evans from the Alameda County District Attorney's Office team represents advances in the field. According to the artist, the woman in this image is “all of us” in the anti-trafficking movement, particularly survivors evolving from darkness to a life filled with joy and beauty.

Springtime is a time of growth, newness, and rebirth. Springtime follows a dark winter. For 20 years, the anti-trafficking movement has worked to transform despair to hope, invisible to visible, and despondency into openness, enthusiasm and hope. She, like the movement, have been transformed.