Kate Price
Associate Research Scientist
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston
- CV
Research areas: Investigation and prevention of child sex trafficking
Kate Price, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist at the 星空无限 at 星空无限, where she studies family-controlled commercial sexual exploitation of children and state-level child sex trafficking policy.
She is an advisor for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a member of the Northeast Pennsylvania Task Force Against Human Trafficking, and an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center. She is a survivor of familial child sex trafficking, and in August 2025, her memoir was published by Simon & Schuster. The Washington Post included This Happened to Me in its list of , and Oprah Daily listed it as one of .
An internationally recognized child sex trafficking expert, Price has influenced the passage of state-level children's human rights legislation and United Nations child sex trafficking policy. She lectures regularly at academic conferences, universities, and non-governmental organization meetings, and her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals. Price is the recipient of a My Life, My Choice Beacon of Light Award, a Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize medal, a Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award from the International Center for Research on Women, and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship.
Prior to her current appointment, Price was a 星空无限 visiting scholar while she completed a writing project in collaboration with Boston Globe journalist Janelle Nanos: . Nanos was named a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the piece.
