Survivor-Leaders

Meet our Speakers

Bella Hounakey, MSW

Survivor-Leader

Bella received a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and Spanish; and a master's degree in Social Work from Western Michigan University. Currently, Bella works for a non-profit organization providing monitoring and evaluations for programs caring for children crossing the boarders to the United States. Bella is working on her first book, a biography of her experience as a victim of sex and labor tracking as a minor. As a victim of crime and a professional working in the field of child welfare, Bella’s ongoing mission is to continue create awareness to reduce risk for victimization, educate social workers, educators, members of the judicial system, and community of the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children, and advocating for victim protection and treatment.

Elisabeth Corey

Survivor-Leader

Elisabeth Corey is a life coach for trauma survivors. She offers one-on-one guidance, virtual groups and workshops to help survivors build awareness of their inner conversation and heal their trauma. Her guidance is informed by her personal recovery from a childhood of family-controlled child sex trafficking and abuse, her life experiences as a parent breaking the cycle of inter-generational trauma, and her education in social work. She helps survivors take life back from their dissociative defense mechanisms through memory recovery, 

Tanya Street-Gould

Founder & Director
Identifiable Me

Tanya Gould-Street, a survivor of domestic sex trafficking, child pornography, sexual abuse as a minor, and controlling relationships, is the founder of Identifiable Me, a nonprofit an organization dedicated to strengthening the emotional and mental health of victims of trafficking and other related sexual violence and moving them towards self-discovery and their life’s purpose. Years after being forced to drop out of school by her trafficker, she went back to college and earned her B.A.Sc. in Communications in 2015. Now, Tanya serves as a mentor, consultant, advisor, trainer, and speaker on topics relating to her story. She has trained and presented trafficking awareness programs to over 150 organizations nationally and internationally. She is the founder and director of Identifiable Me.