Nature Carter has over 20 years of experience as a leader, community organizer and advocate for women's rights, anti-violence and anti-trafficking; developing innovative programs in a variety of nonprofit settings. Born and raised in Seattle's Historical Central District in Yesler Terrace Projects - she beat the odds by overcoming addiction, violence, and sexual exploitation.  She is a motivational speaker on numerous platforms around the United States.

For 15 years, Nature has led the Sex Industry Survivors Network to identify culturally relevant best practices to serve survivors, develop programs, and improve policies.  As the co-founder of Byond Meazurez she has empowered countless people in the community to overcome addiction, trauma, houselessness, and exit the sex trades.  Nature has developed diversion programs in collaboration with Seattle Municipal Court for survivors of the sex trades and a sex buyer intervention program to reduce demand.

In 2014 Nature organized a team of African American service providers and survivors to provide culturally relevant recommendations for sex trafficking response protocols at Washington’s Statewide Coordinating Committee on Sex Trafficking.  Today, Nature continues to lead CSE advocates, mobilizes communities to raise awareness, and provide culturally specific services for African American women as the YWCA’s CSE/SA Program Manager.

Alisa Bernard has served OPS in a variety of capacities since 2013 including in her current role as Director of Education and Partnerships. In addition to co-directing OPS, Alisa is known for her expertise on multi-prong and asymmetric policy model responses to CSE and the impacts these approaches have as they are implemented within American social structures. She is an independent consultant, educator, and presenter having consulted to organizations and agencies across the US, including: Demand Abolition and World Without Exploitation.

She is a founding member of King County’s Ending Exploitation Collaborative, is a member of the King County CSEC Taskforce, represents OPS on the Washington State Anti-Trafficking Task Force, and sits on numerous public and private advisory boards. She developed and delivers an online skill-building and empowerment mentoring series for survivors of CSE. Alisa uses her lived experiences of CSE, teen homelessness, domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse as a lens to inform her work and approach. She is an MPA candidate at The University of Washington and her writing has been featured in the Seattle Times, Crosscut and other online and print media.