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We Need To Understand The Source Of Our Products
E. Benjamin Skinner
Author & Investigative Journalist
The distance between a dream and reality is oftentimes a lot closer than you think. What it takes more than anything is faith that you have the ability to do it.
About E. Benjamin
- I was born in Wisconsin and grew up in both Wisconsin and Northern Nigeria, where my father worked.
- I graduated with a degree in sociology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
- After college, I moved to New York and spent a couple of years working as a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- A mentor encouraged me to look into the issue of modern-day slavery—I knew little about it at the time, but took it on because it would allow me to travel and see places that most people don’t get to.
- I started by interviewing slavery survivors that had escaped to the U.S. and then traveled internationally to continue my investigation.
- An assignment for Newsweek International took me to Sudan—by the end of my time there, I had enough of a story assembled in my head to secure a book advance from a publisher.
- By this time, I was incredibly passionate about getting this story out—as an investigative writer, I infiltrated trafficking networks, slave quarries, illegal brothels, and urban child markets.
- My book “A Crime So Monstrous” about modern-day slavery came out in March 2008.