Lisa Goldblatt Grace is the Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of My Life My Choice (MLMC), a program of JRI. Founded in 2002, My Life My Choice is a groundbreaking, nationally recognized initiative designed to stem the tide of the commercial sexual exploitation of adolescents. My Life My Choice offers a unique continuum of evidence-based, survivor-led services spanning service provider training, exploitation prevention programming for youth at disproportionate risk, direct services to young people impacted by commercial sexual exploitation, and policy and advocacy work. Ms. Goldblatt Grace has been working with marginalized young people in a variety of capacities for over thirty years. Her professional experience includes running a long term shelter for unhoused teen parents, developing a juvenile court diversion, and working in outpatient mental health, health promotion, and residential treatment settings. Ms. Goldblatt Grace was a primary researcher on the 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services national study of programs serving human trafficking victims. She currently serves as co-chair the Governor’s Council Subcommittee on Human Trafficking of the Governor’s Council to Address Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking, and co-chair of the ESN (Young Adults who Exchange Sex to Meet Needs) Working Group of the Governor’s Commission on Unaccompanied and Homeless Youth. She is a member of the National Center on Child Trafficking Advisory Board, and Shared Hope’s National JuST Council. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and holds Masters Degrees in both social work and public health.