Press & Media Center
Not For Sale has spent two decades reporting from the frontlines of modern-day slavery and ecocide, and building the alternatives. Our team, our data, and our field experts are available to journalists, producers, researchers, and media organizations covering trafficking, supply chains, environmental crime, and social innovation.
What we can offer
Expert interviews
With Mark Wexler, Dr. David Batstone, and Not For Sale’s country directors, including Ricardo Dawson (Peru), TK Nziyonvira (Uganda & DRC), Toos Heemskerk-Schep (Netherlands), and others.
Field access & reporting context
On-the-ground context in 33 countries, including the Peruvian Amazon, the DRC’s mining regions, Thailand’s Golden Triangle, and the Mekong corridor in Myanmar and Laos.
Original research & data
From Not For Sale’s frontline operations, the Master Impact Tracker, the SlaveryMap, Free2Work, and Mark Wexler’s King’s College London research on minerals, metals, supply chains, and human rights.
Survivor stories & case studies
Coordinated through Not For Sale’s country teams with the consent and dignity protocols our editorial standards require.
Background briefings & commentary
On breaking news at the intersection of trafficking, supply chains, environmental crime, conflict minerals, climate displacement, and social enterprise.
Our experts
Available for interviews, on-air commentary, op-eds, background briefings, and documentary participation. Each leader is the authoritative voice for their region or domain.
Mark Wexler
social entrepreneurship · anti-trafficking · ethical supply chains · impact investing · enterprise-led development · minerals & metals supply chains (East & Central Africa). Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London.
Dr. David Batstone
the global slave trade · business ethics · social enterprise · battery recycling & critical minerals · the ecocide-slavery nexus. Author of Not For Sale (2007). Professor, University of San Francisco.
Ricardo Dawson
indigenous land rights · illegal gold mining & debt bondage · Brazil nut economies · the Madre de Dios region · Amazon conservation · the AFIMAD cooperative model.
Kru Nam
stateless children · the Golden Triangle trafficking corridor · the children’s village model of long-term survivor care · cross-border trafficking from Myanmar & Laos · Akha hill tribe communities.
Michael Brosowski
trafficking in Vietnam & Southeast Asia · cross-border trafficking into China · cyber-scam compounds in Cambodia, Laos & Myanmar · brick-kiln & forced-labor rescues · survivor reintegration.
Mariko Yamaoka
trafficking flows into Japan · the Technical Intern Training Program & foreign-worker exploitation · labor trafficking in fishing, agriculture & construction · corporate supply-chain accountability (2023 Guidelines).
Ntakamaze “TK” Nziyonvira
refugee economies · cooperatives in Sub-Saharan Africa · the Entrepreneurship Challenge model · the cobalt & coltan supply chain · forced labor in mining communities · East & Central Africa.
David Mwambari
post-genocide community resilience · cross-border trafficking between Rwanda, the DRC & Uganda · youth vulnerability & prevention · vocational training · the East African Community migration corridor.
Toos Heemskerk-Schep
trafficking destination economies · survivor reintegration · vocational training as recovery · the Dignita social-enterprise model · Eastern European flows into Western Europe · hospitality as a pathway to dignified work.
Recent & notable coverage
Story hooks we’re reporting on now
The Ecocide–Trafficking Nexus
How illegal mining, deforestation, and overfishing are driving forced labor across the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and the Mekong. The story most environmental reporting and most trafficking reporting both miss.
The Cyber-Scam Economy
The compounds in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia where trafficked people are forced to run online fraud at industrial scale. Where supply meets supply chain meets organized crime.
The Cobalt Question
Why every smartphone, EV, and laptop on the market is connected to debt bondage and child labor in the DRC, and what happens when battery recycling closes the loop.
Post-USAID Anti-Trafficking
How frontline NGOs are adapting after the largest disruption to global anti-trafficking funding in two decades.
The Madre de Dios Proof
How an indigenous-owned cooperative, a beverage company, and a 753-square-mile conservation area in the Peruvian Amazon stopped the trafficking trade in a region two governments could not.
Media kit includes
- High-resolution Not For Sale logos (PNG, SVG, brand color #F26522)
- Approved photography from Peru, Thailand, Netherlands, Uganda, DRC, and other program countries
- Headshots and biographies of Mark Wexler, Dr. David Batstone, and country directors
- Organizational fact sheet (founding, 501(c)(3) status, EIN, impact figures)
- Master Impact Tracker top-line statistics (cleared for citation)
- B-roll from Baan Kru Nam, AFIMAD, Dignita, and the Entrepreneurship Challenge
- Recent press releases and award announcements
- Brand guidelines and usage restrictions
Everything you need to report responsibly.
Logos, approved imagery, fact sheet, cleared statistics, and B-roll, packaged for deadline.
Download Media KitReporting standards & editorial protocols
Not For Sale operates under strict editorial standards drawn from two decades of work with trafficking survivors and vulnerable communities. We follow trauma-informed interview protocols, never identify minors, and require informed consent for all named subjects.
Our field teams will help coordinate access and ensure that journalists have what they need to report responsibly. We are committed to accuracy; if you find an error in something Not For Sale has published, please tell us at team@wearenotforsale.org. We will correct it.
Citing Not For Sale
Preferred name: in all coverage, use “Not For Sale” spelled out in full, not abbreviated.
On deadline? We respond within one business day.
Email team@wearenotforsale.org with subject line “Press inquiry, [Outlet].” For breaking news or same-day deadlines, flag the deadline in your subject line.
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