GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW — During a recent meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF), the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM) was honored with the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons. GW Law Professor Cori Alonso-Yoder began working with CDM in 2009 as a law clerk in Mexico during her first summer of law school. She has served on the Board of the organization since 2017 and was voted Board President in 2021. She attended the award ceremony alongside Senior White House officials and principals from 20 participating PITF agencies, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Secretaries Alejandro Mayorkas and Xavier Becerra, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer, and EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows.