Mission Update
2003 Theressa Hoover Award Recipient Named
Michelle "Shelley" Cavalieri, 24, of Seattle, Wash., is the Women’s Division’s 2003 Theressa Hoover Community Service and Global Citizen Award recipient. Ms. Cavalieri will use the award to study and work with non-governmental sex-trafficking prevention programs and sex-worker assistance efforts in the Philippines and Thailand.
"After spending some time in urban centers where trafficked women work, I would like to travel to outlying areas where they are recruited to see firsthand the impact trafficking has on the villages," Ms. Cavalieri said.
She plans to use her findings to motivate United Methodist Women members to advocacy and action on the issue.
Ms. Cavalieri is a mission intern of the General Board of Global Ministries serving at the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence in Seattle. Her international service as a mission intern was in Palermo, Italy, where she worked with young Nigerian women who were trafficked into bonded prostitution. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in bioethics.
Ms. Cavalieri is a member of Church of the Master United Methodist Church in Westerville, Ohio, and attends Wallingford United Methodist Church in Seattle.
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