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\n\t\tA Ugandan border official, redefined\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t
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\n\t\tChristina Pazzanese\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\tKennedy School gave Agnes Igoye respite, respect, resolve on her mission against human trafficking\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n
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This is one in a <\/em>series<\/em><\/a> of profiles showcasing some of Harvard\u2019s stellar graduates.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the day of her birth in Uganda, Agnes Igoye confronted a world where girls were not valued.<\/p>\n

Igoye\u2019s mother, having already given birth to two girls, was expected by relatives and neighbors to produce a boy. Agnes\u2019s arrival on March 8 (coincidentally International Women\u2019s Day) was greeted as a bitter disappointment that bordered on \u201cscandalous,\u201d said Igoye, M.C.\/M.P.A .\u201917. \u201cAnd so, growing up in that atmosphere, when you\u2019re not valued as girls, even education becomes [very difficult]. Many girls don\u2019t get the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, her parents knew the importance of education. Her father had put himself through school selling cassava roots, while her mother, a prodigy living in the bush, was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by missionary sisters who paid for her education. Both became teachers who bucked convention by insisting that their daughters (six of their eight children) get an education. It was an idea widely ridiculed.<\/p>\n

As a child, Igoye<\/a> was teased relentlessly for her interest in school, even called a prostitute by one man. Not sure what the word meant, but certain it wasn\u2019t a compliment, Igoye said she made a promise then and there to her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to really work hard in life and succeed and embarrass this man!\u2019\u201d Igoye, 45, recalled with a laugh. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what success meant, but I just knew that I had to do the things that boys do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Igoye\u2019s education came under threat in the late 1980s after religious militant Joseph Kony<\/a> and his violent guerrilla group, the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), embarked on a violent campaign across Uganda and into neighboring countries. Kony and the LRA terrorized villages, including Igoye\u2019s, killing and mutilating residents, burning and looting homes, and abducting children for sexual exploitation and soldiering. One of Igoye\u2019s female cousins was a victim.<\/p>\n

With gunfire outside their door, the family fled, leaving all their possessions behind to looters. They made their way to an encampment for some of the millions displaced by Kony\u2019s reign. It was a traumatic chapter in her life that Igoye now says fueled her zeal to protect women and children from exploitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuman trafficking is everywhere,\u201d but it can have different manifestations and even different definitions depending on the country, Igoye said. \u201cIn Uganda, for us, human trafficking includes child marriage, it includes the use of children in armed conflict, it includes superstition \u2026 it includes removal of organs for witchcraft and rituals,\u201d and it includes forced labor and servitude, street begging by children or karaoke performances and dancing for money.<\/p>\n

Despite years of turmoil, Igoye finished high school and won admittance to Uganda\u2019s only university at the time to study social science. She earned a master\u2019s degree at Makerere University, then went to the University of Oxford as a Fulbright\/Hubert Humphrey Fellow<\/a> in 2010-11 to study forced migration. This month, she will graduate from Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> as a Mason Fellow in the Mid-career Master in Public Administration Program.<\/p>\n

After college, Igoye joined Uganda\u2019s ministry of internal affairs as an immigration officer. While working at the border and at the passport office, where fraudulent documents passed regularly, she saw trafficking and transnational organized crime operations up close and wondered why the government didn\u2019t seem to be taking them seriously and \u2014 though it wasn\u2019t part of their job description \u2014 why immigration officers weren\u2019t being trained to identify these violations and intercede. She persuaded the Minister of Internal Affairs that with proper instruction, officers could help root out traffickers and protect survivors being moved in and out of the country. He appointed Igoye Uganda\u2019s first trafficking trainer and the first woman officer to hold an immigration command post. Since then, she\u2019s taught close to 2,000 new recruits how to identify suspected traffickers and victims, and she helped develop and coordinate Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking efforts to meet international standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so many things to look out for because it\u2019s not like they grab you and take you \u2014 [many victims] go willingly\u201d and don\u2019t realize they\u2019re being trafficked, she said. Victims are taught by traffickers how to respond to law enforcement questions so that they avoid detection. Officers looking for telltale signs are essential.<\/p>\n

While abductions do occur, most trafficking today is done by professionals who recruit through social media or enlist help from a potential victim\u2019s family or friends. Too often, parents are tricked into thinking they are helping their children seize a golden opportunity to study abroad or secure a high-paying job in the U.S. or Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge in Uganda is unemployment; people need to work. [Recruiters] lie to you that they got you this fantastic job, and when you get there, it\u2019s not that job, it\u2019s prostitution\u201d or forced labor, perhaps in the Middle East, she said. Igoye is now the national training manager and deputy national coordinator of Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking task force.<\/p>\n

In June, she returns to Uganda\u2019s capital, Kampala, to open a much-needed support center for survivors of trafficking. Armed with a $50,000 award<\/a> from fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg\u2019s foundation, Igoye hopes the \u201cDream Revival Center\u201d will help fill an aching void. Uganda offers few services for those who\u2019ve been trafficked and too often, even if survivors do escape, they find themselves no longer welcome by family and friends or left without money or a place to stay. With no one to trust, victims call in the middle of the night to have Igoye take them to her home. But after two law enforcement colleagues were shot dead recently, Igoye says it\u2019s not safe to take victims in.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s careful but fatalistic about her life\u2019s work. \u201cIf they want to get you, they get you. But I\u2019ve also settled for the idea that I\u2019d rather die doing something like this than dying in my sleep. It would be boring!\u201d she mused.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Igoye hopes the center will allow survivors to reclaim their lives and pursue justice. \u201cWe often don\u2019t win cases in court because traffickers \u2026 know where to get the survivors\u201d and \u201cmake them withdraw cases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Between classes, Igoye speaks to groups across the country, including the United Nations, the State Department, and law enforcement and anti-trafficking professionals. She also raises awareness and promotes advocacy for girls and women to groups of university and high school students. Last summer, she visited a Las Vegas clinic with Nevada\u2019s U.S. senators, met with trafficked women being held at area detention centers, participated in a raid to rescue 100 trafficked children, and went to the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss border management with patrol guards. Recently, she was chosen by the Clinton Global Initiative University to mentor participants working in criminal justice, and she\u2019s working with the BBC on a documentary about trafficking.<\/p>\n

Igoye said leaving the front lines to spend a year at Harvard has been both intellectually rewarding and a respite from the horrors she deals with daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just about what you learn in class, it\u2019s the confidence you get. Because I\u2019m thinking, how did I end up here, there are so many smart people? And they drum it into you: You deserve to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, you get all that out of your head and then you just go for whatever you want. That\u2019s the beauty of being accepted in a school like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually, I should run for office,\u201d Igoye said. \u201cWith this education, they can no longer say \u2018she\u2019s not qualified,\u2019 so who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Agnes\u2019s arrival on March 8 (coincidentally International Women\u2019s Day) was greeted as a bitter disappointment that bordered on \u201cscandalous,\u201d said Igoye, M.C.\/M.P.A .\u201917. \u201cAnd so, growing up in that atmosphere, when you\u2019re not valued as girls, even education becomes [very difficult]. Many girls don\u2019t get the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, her parents knew the importance of education. Her father had put himself through school selling cassava roots, while her mother, a prodigy living in the bush, was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by missionary sisters who paid for her education. Both became teachers who bucked convention by insisting that their daughters (six of their eight children) get an education. It was an idea widely ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/08\/agnes-igoye-human-trafficking\/492239\/\">Igoye<\/a> was teased relentlessly for her interest in school, even called a prostitute by one man. Not sure what the word meant, but certain it wasn\u2019t a compliment, Igoye said she made a promise then and there to her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to really work hard in life and succeed and embarrass this man!\u2019\u201d Igoye, 45, recalled with a laugh. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what success meant, but I just knew that I had to do the things that boys do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s education came under threat in the late 1980s after religious militant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/may\/01\/end-joseph-kony-hunt-fears-lords-resistance-army-return\">Joseph Kony<\/a> and his violent guerrilla group, the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), embarked on a violent campaign across Uganda and into neighboring countries. Kony and the LRA terrorized villages, including Igoye\u2019s, killing and mutilating residents, burning and looting homes, and abducting children for sexual exploitation and soldiering. One of Igoye\u2019s female cousins was a victim.<\/p>\n<p>With gunfire outside their door, the family fled, leaving all their possessions behind to looters. They made their way to an encampment for some of the millions displaced by Kony\u2019s reign. It was a traumatic chapter in her life that Igoye now says fueled her zeal to protect women and children from exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman trafficking is everywhere,\u201d but it can have different manifestations and even different definitions depending on the country, Igoye said. \u201cIn Uganda, for us, human trafficking includes child marriage, it includes the use of children in armed conflict, it includes superstition \u2026 it includes removal of organs for witchcraft and rituals,\u201d and it includes forced labor and servitude, street begging by children or karaoke performances and dancing for money.<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of turmoil, Igoye finished high school and won admittance to Uganda\u2019s only university at the time to study social science. She earned a master\u2019s degree at Makerere University, then went to the University of Oxford as a Fulbright\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humphreyfellowship.org\/news\/humphrey-fellow-takes-human-trafficking\">Hubert Humphrey Fellow<\/a> in 2010-11 to study forced migration. This month, she will graduate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> as a Mason Fellow in the Mid-career Master in Public Administration Program.<\/p>\n<p>After college, Igoye joined Uganda\u2019s ministry of internal affairs as an immigration officer. While working at the border and at the passport office, where fraudulent documents passed regularly, she saw trafficking and transnational organized crime operations up close and wondered why the government didn\u2019t seem to be taking them seriously and \u2014 though it wasn\u2019t part of their job description \u2014 why immigration officers weren\u2019t being trained to identify these violations and intercede. She persuaded the Minister of Internal Affairs that with proper instruction, officers could help root out traffickers and protect survivors being moved in and out of the country. He appointed Igoye Uganda\u2019s first trafficking trainer and the first woman officer to hold an immigration command post. Since then, she\u2019s taught close to 2,000 new recruits how to identify suspected traffickers and victims, and she helped develop and coordinate Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking efforts to meet international standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many things to look out for because it\u2019s not like they grab you and take you \u2014 [many victims] go willingly\u201d and don\u2019t realize they\u2019re being trafficked, she said. Victims are taught by traffickers how to respond to law enforcement questions so that they avoid detection. Officers looking for telltale signs are essential.<\/p>\n<p>While abductions do occur, most trafficking today is done by professionals who recruit through social media or enlist help from a potential victim\u2019s family or friends. Too often, parents are tricked into thinking they are helping their children seize a golden opportunity to study abroad or secure a high-paying job in the U.S. or Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge in Uganda is unemployment; people need to work. [Recruiters] lie to you that they got you this fantastic job, and when you get there, it\u2019s not that job, it\u2019s prostitution\u201d or forced labor, perhaps in the Middle East, she said. Igoye is now the national training manager and deputy national coordinator of Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking task force.<\/p>\n<p>In June, she returns to Uganda\u2019s capital, Kampala, to open a much-needed support center for survivors of trafficking. Armed with a $50,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvf.com\/dvf-awards\/\">award<\/a> from fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg\u2019s foundation, Igoye hopes the \u201cDream Revival Center\u201d will help fill an aching void. Uganda offers few services for those who\u2019ve been trafficked and too often, even if survivors do escape, they find themselves no longer welcome by family and friends or left without money or a place to stay. With no one to trust, victims call in the middle of the night to have Igoye take them to her home. But after two law enforcement colleagues were shot dead recently, Igoye says it\u2019s not safe to take victims in.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s careful but fatalistic about her life\u2019s work. \u201cIf they want to get you, they get you. But I\u2019ve also settled for the idea that I\u2019d rather die doing something like this than dying in my sleep. It would be boring!\u201d she mused.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Igoye hopes the center will allow survivors to reclaim their lives and pursue justice. \u201cWe often don\u2019t win cases in court because traffickers \u2026 know where to get the survivors\u201d and \u201cmake them withdraw cases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Between classes, Igoye speaks to groups across the country, including the United Nations, the State Department, and law enforcement and anti-trafficking professionals. She also raises awareness and promotes advocacy for girls and women to groups of university and high school students. Last summer, she visited a Las Vegas clinic with Nevada\u2019s U.S. senators, met with trafficked women being held at area detention centers, participated in a raid to rescue 100 trafficked children, and went to the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss border management with patrol guards. Recently, she was chosen by the Clinton Global Initiative University to mentor participants working in criminal justice, and she\u2019s working with the BBC on a documentary about trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye said leaving the front lines to spend a year at Harvard has been both intellectually rewarding and a respite from the horrors she deals with daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about what you learn in class, it\u2019s the confidence you get. Because I\u2019m thinking, how did I end up here, there are so many smart people? And they drum it into you: You deserve to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, you get all that out of your head and then you just go for whatever you want. That\u2019s the beauty of being accepted in a school like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, I should run for office,\u201d Igoye said. \u201cWith this education, they can no longer say \u2018she\u2019s not qualified,\u2019 so who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n\t\t<p><em>This is one in a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/topic\/commencement-2017\/\"><em>series<\/em><\/a><em> of profiles showcasing some of Harvard\u2019s stellar graduates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the day of her birth in Uganda, Agnes Igoye confronted a world where girls were not valued.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s mother, having already given birth to two girls, was expected by relatives and neighbors to produce a boy. Agnes\u2019s arrival on March 8 (coincidentally International Women\u2019s Day) was greeted as a bitter disappointment that bordered on \u201cscandalous,\u201d said Igoye, M.C.\/M.P.A .\u201917. \u201cAnd so, growing up in that atmosphere, when you\u2019re not valued as girls, even education becomes [very difficult]. Many girls don\u2019t get the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, her parents knew the importance of education. Her father had put himself through school selling cassava roots, while her mother, a prodigy living in the bush, was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by missionary sisters who paid for her education. Both became teachers who bucked convention by insisting that their daughters (six of their eight children) get an education. It was an idea widely ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/08\/agnes-igoye-human-trafficking\/492239\/\">Igoye<\/a> was teased relentlessly for her interest in school, even called a prostitute by one man. Not sure what the word meant, but certain it wasn\u2019t a compliment, Igoye said she made a promise then and there to her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to really work hard in life and succeed and embarrass this man!\u2019\u201d Igoye, 45, recalled with a laugh. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what success meant, but I just knew that I had to do the things that boys do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s education came under threat in the late 1980s after religious militant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/may\/01\/end-joseph-kony-hunt-fears-lords-resistance-army-return\">Joseph Kony<\/a> and his violent guerrilla group, the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), embarked on a violent campaign across Uganda and into neighboring countries. Kony and the LRA terrorized villages, including Igoye\u2019s, killing and mutilating residents, burning and looting homes, and abducting children for sexual exploitation and soldiering. One of Igoye\u2019s female cousins was a victim.<\/p>\n<p>With gunfire outside their door, the family fled, leaving all their possessions behind to looters. They made their way to an encampment for some of the millions displaced by Kony\u2019s reign. It was a traumatic chapter in her life that Igoye now says fueled her zeal to protect women and children from exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman trafficking is everywhere,\u201d but it can have different manifestations and even different definitions depending on the country, Igoye said. \u201cIn Uganda, for us, human trafficking includes child marriage, it includes the use of children in armed conflict, it includes superstition \u2026 it includes removal of organs for witchcraft and rituals,\u201d and it includes forced labor and servitude, street begging by children or karaoke performances and dancing for money.<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of turmoil, Igoye finished high school and won admittance to Uganda\u2019s only university at the time to study social science. She earned a master\u2019s degree at Makerere University, then went to the University of Oxford as a Fulbright\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humphreyfellowship.org\/news\/humphrey-fellow-takes-human-trafficking\">Hubert Humphrey Fellow<\/a> in 2010-11 to study forced migration. This month, she will graduate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> as a Mason Fellow in the Mid-career Master in Public Administration Program.<\/p>\n<p>After college, Igoye joined Uganda\u2019s ministry of internal affairs as an immigration officer. While working at the border and at the passport office, where fraudulent documents passed regularly, she saw trafficking and transnational organized crime operations up close and wondered why the government didn\u2019t seem to be taking them seriously and \u2014 though it wasn\u2019t part of their job description \u2014 why immigration officers weren\u2019t being trained to identify these violations and intercede. She persuaded the Minister of Internal Affairs that with proper instruction, officers could help root out traffickers and protect survivors being moved in and out of the country. He appointed Igoye Uganda\u2019s first trafficking trainer and the first woman officer to hold an immigration command post. Since then, she\u2019s taught close to 2,000 new recruits how to identify suspected traffickers and victims, and she helped develop and coordinate Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking efforts to meet international standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many things to look out for because it\u2019s not like they grab you and take you \u2014 [many victims] go willingly\u201d and don\u2019t realize they\u2019re being trafficked, she said. Victims are taught by traffickers how to respond to law enforcement questions so that they avoid detection. Officers looking for telltale signs are essential.<\/p>\n<p>While abductions do occur, most trafficking today is done by professionals who recruit through social media or enlist help from a potential victim\u2019s family or friends. Too often, parents are tricked into thinking they are helping their children seize a golden opportunity to study abroad or secure a high-paying job in the U.S. or Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge in Uganda is unemployment; people need to work. [Recruiters] lie to you that they got you this fantastic job, and when you get there, it\u2019s not that job, it\u2019s prostitution\u201d or forced labor, perhaps in the Middle East, she said. Igoye is now the national training manager and deputy national coordinator of Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking task force.<\/p>\n<p>In June, she returns to Uganda\u2019s capital, Kampala, to open a much-needed support center for survivors of trafficking. Armed with a $50,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvf.com\/dvf-awards\/\">award<\/a> from fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg\u2019s foundation, Igoye hopes the \u201cDream Revival Center\u201d will help fill an aching void. Uganda offers few services for those who\u2019ve been trafficked and too often, even if survivors do escape, they find themselves no longer welcome by family and friends or left without money or a place to stay. With no one to trust, victims call in the middle of the night to have Igoye take them to her home. But after two law enforcement colleagues were shot dead recently, Igoye says it\u2019s not safe to take victims in.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s careful but fatalistic about her life\u2019s work. \u201cIf they want to get you, they get you. But I\u2019ve also settled for the idea that I\u2019d rather die doing something like this than dying in my sleep. It would be boring!\u201d she mused.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Igoye hopes the center will allow survivors to reclaim their lives and pursue justice. \u201cWe often don\u2019t win cases in court because traffickers \u2026 know where to get the survivors\u201d and \u201cmake them withdraw cases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Between classes, Igoye speaks to groups across the country, including the United Nations, the State Department, and law enforcement and anti-trafficking professionals. She also raises awareness and promotes advocacy for girls and women to groups of university and high school students. Last summer, she visited a Las Vegas clinic with Nevada\u2019s U.S. senators, met with trafficked women being held at area detention centers, participated in a raid to rescue 100 trafficked children, and went to the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss border management with patrol guards. Recently, she was chosen by the Clinton Global Initiative University to mentor participants working in criminal justice, and she\u2019s working with the BBC on a documentary about trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye said leaving the front lines to spend a year at Harvard has been both intellectually rewarding and a respite from the horrors she deals with daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about what you learn in class, it\u2019s the confidence you get. Because I\u2019m thinking, how did I end up here, there are so many smart people? And they drum it into you: You deserve to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, you get all that out of your head and then you just go for whatever you want. That\u2019s the beauty of being accepted in a school like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, I should run for office,\u201d Igoye said. \u201cWith this education, they can no longer say \u2018she\u2019s not qualified,\u2019 so who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n"],"rendered":"\n\t\t<p><em>This is one in a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/topic\/commencement-2017\/\"><em>series<\/em><\/a><em> of profiles showcasing some of Harvard\u2019s stellar graduates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the day of her birth in Uganda, Agnes Igoye confronted a world where girls were not valued.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s mother, having already given birth to two girls, was expected by relatives and neighbors to produce a boy. Agnes\u2019s arrival on March 8 (coincidentally International Women\u2019s Day) was greeted as a bitter disappointment that bordered on \u201cscandalous,\u201d said Igoye, M.C.\/M.P.A .\u201917. \u201cAnd so, growing up in that atmosphere, when you\u2019re not valued as girls, even education becomes [very difficult]. Many girls don\u2019t get the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, her parents knew the importance of education. Her father had put himself through school selling cassava roots, while her mother, a prodigy living in the bush, was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by missionary sisters who paid for her education. Both became teachers who bucked convention by insisting that their daughters (six of their eight children) get an education. It was an idea widely ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/08\/agnes-igoye-human-trafficking\/492239\/\">Igoye<\/a> was teased relentlessly for her interest in school, even called a prostitute by one man. Not sure what the word meant, but certain it wasn\u2019t a compliment, Igoye said she made a promise then and there to her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to really work hard in life and succeed and embarrass this man!\u2019\u201d Igoye, 45, recalled with a laugh. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what success meant, but I just knew that I had to do the things that boys do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s education came under threat in the late 1980s after religious militant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/may\/01\/end-joseph-kony-hunt-fears-lords-resistance-army-return\">Joseph Kony<\/a> and his violent guerrilla group, the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), embarked on a violent campaign across Uganda and into neighboring countries. Kony and the LRA terrorized villages, including Igoye\u2019s, killing and mutilating residents, burning and looting homes, and abducting children for sexual exploitation and soldiering. One of Igoye\u2019s female cousins was a victim.<\/p>\n<p>With gunfire outside their door, the family fled, leaving all their possessions behind to looters. They made their way to an encampment for some of the millions displaced by Kony\u2019s reign. It was a traumatic chapter in her life that Igoye now says fueled her zeal to protect women and children from exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman trafficking is everywhere,\u201d but it can have different manifestations and even different definitions depending on the country, Igoye said. \u201cIn Uganda, for us, human trafficking includes child marriage, it includes the use of children in armed conflict, it includes superstition \u2026 it includes removal of organs for witchcraft and rituals,\u201d and it includes forced labor and servitude, street begging by children or karaoke performances and dancing for money.<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of turmoil, Igoye finished high school and won admittance to Uganda\u2019s only university at the time to study social science. She earned a master\u2019s degree at Makerere University, then went to the University of Oxford as a Fulbright\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humphreyfellowship.org\/news\/humphrey-fellow-takes-human-trafficking\">Hubert Humphrey Fellow<\/a> in 2010-11 to study forced migration. This month, she will graduate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> as a Mason Fellow in the Mid-career Master in Public Administration Program.<\/p>\n<p>After college, Igoye joined Uganda\u2019s ministry of internal affairs as an immigration officer. While working at the border and at the passport office, where fraudulent documents passed regularly, she saw trafficking and transnational organized crime operations up close and wondered why the government didn\u2019t seem to be taking them seriously and \u2014 though it wasn\u2019t part of their job description \u2014 why immigration officers weren\u2019t being trained to identify these violations and intercede. She persuaded the Minister of Internal Affairs that with proper instruction, officers could help root out traffickers and protect survivors being moved in and out of the country. He appointed Igoye Uganda\u2019s first trafficking trainer and the first woman officer to hold an immigration command post. Since then, she\u2019s taught close to 2,000 new recruits how to identify suspected traffickers and victims, and she helped develop and coordinate Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking efforts to meet international standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many things to look out for because it\u2019s not like they grab you and take you \u2014 [many victims] go willingly\u201d and don\u2019t realize they\u2019re being trafficked, she said. Victims are taught by traffickers how to respond to law enforcement questions so that they avoid detection. Officers looking for telltale signs are essential.<\/p>\n<p>While abductions do occur, most trafficking today is done by professionals who recruit through social media or enlist help from a potential victim\u2019s family or friends. Too often, parents are tricked into thinking they are helping their children seize a golden opportunity to study abroad or secure a high-paying job in the U.S. or Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge in Uganda is unemployment; people need to work. [Recruiters] lie to you that they got you this fantastic job, and when you get there, it\u2019s not that job, it\u2019s prostitution\u201d or forced labor, perhaps in the Middle East, she said. Igoye is now the national training manager and deputy national coordinator of Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking task force.<\/p>\n<p>In June, she returns to Uganda\u2019s capital, Kampala, to open a much-needed support center for survivors of trafficking. Armed with a $50,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvf.com\/dvf-awards\/\">award<\/a> from fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg\u2019s foundation, Igoye hopes the \u201cDream Revival Center\u201d will help fill an aching void. Uganda offers few services for those who\u2019ve been trafficked and too often, even if survivors do escape, they find themselves no longer welcome by family and friends or left without money or a place to stay. With no one to trust, victims call in the middle of the night to have Igoye take them to her home. But after two law enforcement colleagues were shot dead recently, Igoye says it\u2019s not safe to take victims in.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s careful but fatalistic about her life\u2019s work. \u201cIf they want to get you, they get you. But I\u2019ve also settled for the idea that I\u2019d rather die doing something like this than dying in my sleep. It would be boring!\u201d she mused.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Igoye hopes the center will allow survivors to reclaim their lives and pursue justice. \u201cWe often don\u2019t win cases in court because traffickers \u2026 know where to get the survivors\u201d and \u201cmake them withdraw cases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Between classes, Igoye speaks to groups across the country, including the United Nations, the State Department, and law enforcement and anti-trafficking professionals. She also raises awareness and promotes advocacy for girls and women to groups of university and high school students. Last summer, she visited a Las Vegas clinic with Nevada\u2019s U.S. senators, met with trafficked women being held at area detention centers, participated in a raid to rescue 100 trafficked children, and went to the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss border management with patrol guards. Recently, she was chosen by the Clinton Global Initiative University to mentor participants working in criminal justice, and she\u2019s working with the BBC on a documentary about trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye said leaving the front lines to spend a year at Harvard has been both intellectually rewarding and a respite from the horrors she deals with daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about what you learn in class, it\u2019s the confidence you get. Because I\u2019m thinking, how did I end up here, there are so many smart people? And they drum it into you: You deserve to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, you get all that out of your head and then you just go for whatever you want. That\u2019s the beauty of being accepted in a school like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, I should run for office,\u201d Igoye said. \u201cWith this education, they can no longer say \u2018she\u2019s not qualified,\u2019 so who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n","\n\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p><em>This is one in a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/topic\/commencement-2017\/\"><em>series<\/em><\/a><em> of profiles showcasing some of Harvard\u2019s stellar graduates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the day of her birth in Uganda, Agnes Igoye confronted a world where girls were not valued.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s mother, having already given birth to two girls, was expected by relatives and neighbors to produce a boy. Agnes\u2019s arrival on March 8 (coincidentally International Women\u2019s Day) was greeted as a bitter disappointment that bordered on \u201cscandalous,\u201d said Igoye, M.C.\/M.P.A .\u201917. \u201cAnd so, growing up in that atmosphere, when you\u2019re not valued as girls, even education becomes [very difficult]. Many girls don\u2019t get the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, her parents knew the importance of education. Her father had put himself through school selling cassava roots, while her mother, a prodigy living in the bush, was \u201cdiscovered\u201d by missionary sisters who paid for her education. Both became teachers who bucked convention by insisting that their daughters (six of their eight children) get an education. It was an idea widely ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/08\/agnes-igoye-human-trafficking\/492239\/\">Igoye<\/a> was teased relentlessly for her interest in school, even called a prostitute by one man. Not sure what the word meant, but certain it wasn\u2019t a compliment, Igoye said she made a promise then and there to her mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to really work hard in life and succeed and embarrass this man!\u2019\u201d Igoye, 45, recalled with a laugh. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what success meant, but I just knew that I had to do the things that boys do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igoye\u2019s education came under threat in the late 1980s after religious militant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/may\/01\/end-joseph-kony-hunt-fears-lords-resistance-army-return\">Joseph Kony<\/a> and his violent guerrilla group, the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), embarked on a violent campaign across Uganda and into neighboring countries. Kony and the LRA terrorized villages, including Igoye\u2019s, killing and mutilating residents, burning and looting homes, and abducting children for sexual exploitation and soldiering. One of Igoye\u2019s female cousins was a victim.<\/p>\n<p>With gunfire outside their door, the family fled, leaving all their possessions behind to looters. They made their way to an encampment for some of the millions displaced by Kony\u2019s reign. It was a traumatic chapter in her life that Igoye now says fueled her zeal to protect women and children from exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman trafficking is everywhere,\u201d but it can have different manifestations and even different definitions depending on the country, Igoye said. \u201cIn Uganda, for us, human trafficking includes child marriage, it includes the use of children in armed conflict, it includes superstition \u2026 it includes removal of organs for witchcraft and rituals,\u201d and it includes forced labor and servitude, street begging by children or karaoke performances and dancing for money.<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of turmoil, Igoye finished high school and won admittance to Uganda\u2019s only university at the time to study social science. She earned a master\u2019s degree at Makerere University, then went to the University of Oxford as a Fulbright\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humphreyfellowship.org\/news\/humphrey-fellow-takes-human-trafficking\">Hubert Humphrey Fellow<\/a> in 2010-11 to study forced migration. This month, she will graduate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\">Harvard Kennedy School<\/a> as a Mason Fellow in the Mid-career Master in Public Administration Program.<\/p>\n<p>After college, Igoye joined Uganda\u2019s ministry of internal affairs as an immigration officer. While working at the border and at the passport office, where fraudulent documents passed regularly, she saw trafficking and transnational organized crime operations up close and wondered why the government didn\u2019t seem to be taking them seriously and \u2014 though it wasn\u2019t part of their job description \u2014 why immigration officers weren\u2019t being trained to identify these violations and intercede. She persuaded the Minister of Internal Affairs that with proper instruction, officers could help root out traffickers and protect survivors being moved in and out of the country. He appointed Igoye Uganda\u2019s first trafficking trainer and the first woman officer to hold an immigration command post. Since then, she\u2019s taught close to 2,000 new recruits how to identify suspected traffickers and victims, and she helped develop and coordinate Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking efforts to meet international standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many things to look out for because it\u2019s not like they grab you and take you \u2014 [many victims] go willingly\u201d and don\u2019t realize they\u2019re being trafficked, she said. Victims are taught by traffickers how to respond to law enforcement questions so that they avoid detection. Officers looking for telltale signs are essential.<\/p>\n<p>While abductions do occur, most trafficking today is done by professionals who recruit through social media or enlist help from a potential victim\u2019s family or friends. Too often, parents are tricked into thinking they are helping their children seize a golden opportunity to study abroad or secure a high-paying job in the U.S. or Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge in Uganda is unemployment; people need to work. [Recruiters] lie to you that they got you this fantastic job, and when you get there, it\u2019s not that job, it\u2019s prostitution\u201d or forced labor, perhaps in the Middle East, she said. Igoye is now the national training manager and deputy national coordinator of Uganda\u2019s anti-trafficking task force.<\/p>\n<p>In June, she returns to Uganda\u2019s capital, Kampala, to open a much-needed support center for survivors of trafficking. Armed with a $50,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvf.com\/dvf-awards\/\">award<\/a> from fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg\u2019s foundation, Igoye hopes the \u201cDream Revival Center\u201d will help fill an aching void. Uganda offers few services for those who\u2019ve been trafficked and too often, even if survivors do escape, they find themselves no longer welcome by family and friends or left without money or a place to stay. With no one to trust, victims call in the middle of the night to have Igoye take them to her home. But after two law enforcement colleagues were shot dead recently, Igoye says it\u2019s not safe to take victims in.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s careful but fatalistic about her life\u2019s work. \u201cIf they want to get you, they get you. But I\u2019ve also settled for the idea that I\u2019d rather die doing something like this than dying in my sleep. It would be boring!\u201d she mused.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Igoye hopes the center will allow survivors to reclaim their lives and pursue justice. \u201cWe often don\u2019t win cases in court because traffickers \u2026 know where to get the survivors\u201d and \u201cmake them withdraw cases,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Between classes, Igoye speaks to groups across the country, including the United Nations, the State Department, and law enforcement and anti-trafficking professionals. She also raises awareness and promotes advocacy for girls and women to groups of university and high school students. Last summer, she visited a Las Vegas clinic with Nevada\u2019s U.S. senators, met with trafficked women being held at area detention centers, participated in a raid to rescue 100 trafficked children, and went to the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss border management with patrol guards. Recently, she was chosen by the Clinton Global Initiative University to mentor participants working in criminal justice, and she\u2019s working with the BBC on a documentary about trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Igoye said leaving the front lines to spend a year at Harvard has been both intellectually rewarding and a respite from the horrors she deals with daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about what you learn in class, it\u2019s the confidence you get. Because I\u2019m thinking, how did I end up here, there are so many smart people? And they drum it into you: You deserve to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, you get all that out of your head and then you just go for whatever you want. That\u2019s the beauty of being accepted in a school like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, I should run for office,\u201d Igoye said. \u201cWith this education, they can no longer say \u2018she\u2019s not qualified,\u2019 so who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n"}},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337834,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2022\/02\/horrors-of-civil-war-drive-lifelong-fight-for-justice\/","url_meta":{"origin":222399,"position":0},"title":"Fighting for human rights in riven land overseen by repressive regime","author":"gazettebeckycoleman","date":"February 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugandan Scholar at Risk and human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo describes how his early life shaped his future.","rel":"","context":"In "Nation & World"","block_context":{"text":"Nation & World","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Scholar at Risk, Nicholas Opiyo","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/121421_Opiyo_3628.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/121421_Opiyo_3628.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/121421_Opiyo_3628.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/121421_Opiyo_3628.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":360818,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2023\/07\/harvard-photographer-captures-happiness-frame-by-frame\/","url_meta":{"origin":222399,"position":1},"title":"Happy together","author":"Stephanie Mitchell","date":"July 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo gallery features images that reflect moments of joy, quiet contentment, and companionship.","rel":"","context":"In "Campus & Community"","block_context":{"text":"Campus & Community","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lulu August \u201926 (center) is hugged by her proud parents, Kakuri and Agnes.","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1_081922_MoveIn_032.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1_081922_MoveIn_032.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1_081922_MoveIn_032.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1_081922_MoveIn_032.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":160504,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2014\/09\/bearing-witness-to-uganda\/","url_meta":{"origin":222399,"position":2},"title":"Bearing witness to Uganda","author":"harvardgazette","date":"September 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The A.R.T. of Human Rights, a yearlong series, kicked off at the Oberon theater with a discussion about gay rights in Uganda.","rel":"","context":"In "Arts & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Arts & Culture","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/arts-humanities\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/art_human_4108_605_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/art_human_4108_605_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/art_human_4108_605_1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":355988,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2023\/03\/in-era-of-bitter-division-what-would-socrates-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":222399,"position":3},"title":"In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?","author":"harvardgazette","date":"March 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Lessons for voters and lawmakers in philosopher\u2019s wisdom, Agnes Callard argues: \u201cHe\u2019s not trying to win. 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