Who We Are

Aubrey Lloyd (MSW, LSW) is a senior project manager overseeing work specific to Human Trafficking at ICF. She has 21 years of nonprofit experience working with populations affected by trauma while working with the often scarcity of resources available to communities. This experience focused on delivering training, creating and maintaining community partnerships, implementing trauma informed practice, and curricula. For the past 14 years, she has designed and implemented programs for multidisciplinary teams and nongovernmental and community-based organizations using her subject matter expertise in human trafficking, trauma-responsive victim assistance programming, and connections between other vulnerability sectors such as addiction, non-livable wages, interpersonal violence, housing insecurities, early childhood adverse conditions and the impact of developmental and historical trauma.   

She has worked at the state level to coordinate identification and service delivery for victims as well as developing a state accredited trauma informed educational curricula and trauma informed group home model structure for minor victims of human trafficking.   

She has used this knowledge with hundreds of grantees funded through the Department of Justice, to formulate foundations for effective and sustainable human trafficking programming, utilize data to craft evaluative and evidence-based interventions and provide subject matter expertise in building responses that address change opportunities from the systemic levels to the individual considerations of service delivery. Ms. Lloyd also brings the invaluable perspective of a survivor-advocate.  

Ebony Velazquez has 10 years of experience as a victim advocate within the court system and 5 years of experience in the anti-trafficking field. Prior to joining ICF, Ebony served as the lead project manager for the Hampton Roads Human Trafficking Task Force via the Office of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Her duties included supervising and providing support to the Task Force team, operating as the central contact for Task Force information. In conjunction with Homeland Security, she developed, organized and implemented best practice training for service providers, law enforcement agencies, and other key stakeholders on human trafficking identification as a cohesive means to safeguard the coordination of effective investigations, prosecutions and service delivery. Ebony worked with project evaluators to obtain essential trafficking information acting as a link between victim service providers and law enforcement partners to ensure consistency and the correlation of services and care for human trafficking survivors. She also served as a community liaison, partnering with businesses, schools, and community groups for outreach purposes.  

Ebony holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with minors in Sociology and Spanish from Hampton University, where she was a member of the Phi Alpha Delta International Law Fraternity, Pi Delta Alpha Political Science Honor Society, and the National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor Society.  

Josie Heyano, LMSW, is a Deg Xinag Athabascan woman from Alaska. Her passion for this work includes bringing more awareness to the intersections of MMIR and Human Trafficking and to address the gap in knowledge and services surrounding forced drug trafficking in rural communities. Her experience working in Alaska has fueled a passion for creating equitable systems and building service networks that understand historical trauma and cultural resiliency. She is driven to better use data to understand risk factors for trafficking and create community specific preventing programs. Josie has several years of experience providing systems navigation and clinical mental health services for youth experiencing homelessness, exploitation, and trafficking in Alaska. In 2022 she completed a graduate fellowship with Prevention Now, an anti-trafficking non-profit that leverages data and technology to uncover why human trafficking occurs, where she completed a landscape analysis of Human Trafficking data needs in Alaska and co-created the Alaska Human Trafficking Data Needs Assessment which launched the first annual Alaska Human Trafficking Data Summit. In 2023 she was awarded the Federal Bureau of Investigations Directors Community Leadership Award for her service to the community of Alaska and her collective stakeholder approach to Human Trafficking prevention and intervention. Josie currently serves her home community as a training consultant and mental health counselor. 

Katie Shaver is the Office for Victims of Crime Human Trafficking Collective (OVC HTC) Team Lead at ICF. She has 10 years of experience in the anti-trafficking field, specializing in domestic and international program development, conference and event coordination, and training and technical assistance delivery. During her seven years at ICF, Ms. Shaver has managed the successful delivery of human trafficking-specific events and meetings, including the annual Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Human Trafficking Grantee Meeting, as well as supported the development of customized training plans. 

Prior to her work at ICF, Ms. Shaver used her programmatic skills and knowledge of the human trafficking field to coordinate and deliver the largest annual human trafficking conference series in the nation, develop nonprofit grant and partnership program and trainings, manage trauma-informed intern and volunteer programs, and establish collaborative relationships with essential leaders in the anti-trafficking field in order to best respond to victims and serve survivors. Ms. Shaver holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Gender Studies from the University of Mary Washington. 

Expertise: Equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives; collaboration and partnerships

Mrs. Morgan Rumple-Whiting (she/her) has 8 years of experience in the anti-trafficking field, including direct service, program development, coalition building, and training and technical assistance delivery. Prior to joining ICF, Morgan has provided sexual violence programs with support and expertise in ensuring policy, procedure, and service delivery are trauma informed and culturally fluent. In addition to her human trafficking specific work, she has also assisted foster care agencies to college/university institutions in developing practices that address the root causes of violence to best support those impacted and those who provide services. Morgan lives in Louisville, KY with her partner, 2 dogs, and 3 cats.