Nathan Earl is an anti-trafficking pioneer, fierce advocate and visionary leader with a passion for building resilient communities immune to exploitation. Through his work as the Principal Consultant at Giant Slayer Communications, Nathan leverages more than 20 years of lived and professional experience to help organizations and communities prevent violence against boys and male-identifying individuals.
In 2014, Mr. Earl operationalized and led one of the first direct service programs for male survivors of human trafficking in the country. Based in South Florida, the program provided outreach, care coordination, case management, and housing for young adult male survivors challenged with substance dependency. Nathan currently assists Federal, State and NGO partners increase their capacity in the areas of research, collective impact, primary prevention and crisis intervention.
Mr. Earl is a member of multiple research teams tasked with studying the scope and prevalence of male sex trafficking, acute gaps in mental health care experienced by survivors of human trafficking, and the exploitation of LGBTQIA youth experiencing homelessness.
Mr. Earl is a 2019 Fellow of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Human Trafficking Leadership Academy. Nathan holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of South Florida and is currently pursuing his Master’s in Public Health degree at Yale University. Mr. Earl possesses a Certificate in Leadership from Coro Southern California, and a Certificate in Human Subjects Research from CITI.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” — Viktor Frankl