Alison Phillips

Alison Phillips is a co-founder of the HTTC. Previously, she served as the Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. As task force director, Alison built a strong, engaged multi-disciplinary team that conducted proactive operations, trained thousands of law enforcement and health care professionals, and implemented strategic initiatives such as “The Hope Initiative” which resulted in the closure of 40% of the state’s illicit massage businesses and became a national model. 

Alison has written her own curriculum on human trafficking for undergraduate, criminal justice majors while working as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri in Kansas City (UMKC) and at Mid-America Nazarene University (MNU).  In sum, Alison has oa ver a decade of experience in counter human trafficking work, through advocacy, academia and multidisciplinary team building. 

In her first career, Alison served as an airline pilot for a regional carrier in the state of Alaska. She is a rated airline transport pilot, with 3,000 hours of flight time logged, and has flown two former U.S. Presidents, members of congress and other public figures. Alison lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, three teenage children, and three dogs.