Mariah Grant
she/her
Advocacy Consultant
Mariah Grant is a human rights expert who focuses on migrant and sex worker rights, freedom of movement, and labor exploitation.
She is a highly effective advocate who works to end systems of oppression in collaboration with impacted communities and individuals, including sex workers, drug users, migrants, and people who are currently or were previously incarcerated.
Mariah combines her many years of experience providing direct services to migrant and refugee children and families within the United States and Europe and researching and documenting human rights abuses throughout the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific to push for long-term policy solutions at the local, national, and international levels.
She is currently a freelance consultant working on projects related to sex worker rights, human trafficking prevention, and service provision for survivors.
Before consulting, she was the Director of Research and Advocacy with the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center, where she oversaw research on the harms of sex work criminalization, including police violence, as well as local, state, and federal policy advocacy to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work.
She’s consulted and worked with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the US Department of State, the US Department of Labor, ICF International, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the Free Speech Coalition, Decriminalize Sex Work, Freedom Network USA, New Moon Network, Protection International, Morrison Child and Family Service, Minority Rights Group International, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.
In her previous roles, Mariah successfully introduced and helped pass state and federal-US laws and policies to protect the health and human rights of sex workers and survivors of human trafficking.
She’s also led several groundbreaking research projects on topics ranging from the experiences of sex workers in conflict zones and humanitarian crises to the impacts of district attorney non-prosecution policies in the context of sex work criminalization.