Board of Directors & Staff Biographies
Dr. Stephen Long is an author, journalist, creative strategist, and professional marketer with international experience in tourism, art, manufacturing, and other sectors. From 1989 to 1995 he lived and worked in Thailand and became acutely aware of the sex trafficking issue. When he returned to the United States he wrote a novel entitled, Karmic Ties, which dealt with this issue in Southeast Asia. His latest book is with co-author, Bhante Walpola Piyananda, and is entitled “Thus We Heard: Recollections of the Life of the Buddha.”
Yosh Yamanaka was born in Japan and was educated in the United States. He graduated from M.I.T., taught high school, practiced law, and presided as a worker’s compensation judge from 1995 until his retirement in 2010. He has been a long-time social justice activist and is presently teaching in Laos. Yosh will be establishing an organization to help remove some of the 80,000,000 cluster bomblets which still litter the Laos countryside. He has served on the Captive Daughters Board since 2000.
Hanna Zylberberg has worked as an educator for more than 20 years in both private and public schools in the Los Angeles area. She is passionate about politics and human rights; she has worked as a volunteer for several presidential campaigns and is an active member of several human rights organizations. She has served on the Captive Daughters Board since 2002.
Sandra Hunnicutt – See Staff below.
STAFF
Sandra Hunnicutt, Executive Director
Sandra has 22 years of non-profit experience as an employee, volunteer and board member. She first learned of sex trafficking while accompanying her husband on Fulbright Fellowship (1994-95) to Nepal where she learned of the entrenched practice of sex trafficking in South Asia. On her return to the U.S. Sandra established Captive Daughters in 1996 as California's first anti-sex trafficking organization. Sandra holds a B.A. in history from the University of Maryland, a M.L.S. from Dominican University (Illinois) and an A.A. in merchandising from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising/Los Angeles.
Summer Moore, Spokesperson/Media Relations
Summer is both an actress and writer. She has performed in many films, television shows, commercials, and theatre productions, as well as, numerous webisodes for Captive Daughters that can be found on Youtube. As a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, she has a strong belief in helping others. Through her work with Captive Daughters, she is helping to raise awareness of Captive Daughters, as well as sex trafficking. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Environmental Studies and with Highest Honors from Diamond Mountain University.
