Truckers Against Trafficking: Combatting the Issue Head-On

A seasoned executive on the Women In Trucking Association team, Cassidy Mullins is responsible for a wide variety of projects, ranging from Production Manager of Redefining the Road (the official magazine of Women In Trucking) and supporting membership and sales initiatives with WIT to supporting WIT’s recognition programs and management of the Accelerate! Conference & Expo. Mullins is Vice President of Operations for MindShare Strategies, WIT’s official association management company, and also is Account Supervisor and sales executive for Food Chain Digest and Food For Thought, the official magazine and e-newsletter for Food Shippers of America. Mullins recently attended a Truckers Against Trafficking-related event in July at Bridgestone in Nashville and has quickly become passionate about TAT’s mission.

Prior to joining the WIT team, Mullins worked for more than two years in sales and customer experience roles for KeepTruckin, a technology leader in connecting the world’s trucks with its cutting-edge ELD and fleet management platform. She also worked for nearly three years in a sales capacity with ServiceSource. Cassidy holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Kentucky University. She is located in Nashville, Tennessee. When not working on WIT initiatives, she enjoys spending time with her husband Carter, family and friends, and her dog, Kona.

Liz Williamson is a Training Specialist for Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) and a survivor of human trafficking. Located in northern California, Williamson shares her trafficking story at casino/bus Coalition Builds and other TAT events and is responsible for some administrative duties.

A survivor advocate, she has done direct service work with survivors at the local, regional, and national levels. For the past decade, she has trained and spoken nationally to audiences regarding her survival of familial trafficking to help dispel the myths surrounding this topic and to empower individuals to help make a difference.  

Williamson has also trained medical professionals with Dignity Health to identify victims seeking to receive medical services, with special attention given to what the medical community missed or was unable to assist her with during her trafficking experience. She is a member of the Survivor Leadership Institute through GEMS.  She is a member of the NJ Coalition to End Human Trafficking and recently invited to the NJ Chapter of American Pediatrics Task Force on Human Trafficking.

With a bachelor’s in English Literature and a flair for all things creative, Williamson enjoys communicating and creating. She passionately believes survivors deserve the opportunity to use their experiences to rewrite their stories and their futures.  

Brandy Belton is the Freedom Driver's Project Director who is passionate about educating and bringing awareness to the issue of human trafficking for companies and the larger community.  

The Freedom Drivers Project (FDP) is a first-of-its-kind mobile exhibit that is a premiere tool for educating members of the trucking, bus, and energy industry and the general public about the realities of domestic sex trafficking and how the trucking industry is combating it.  She travels with the Freedom Driver's Project throughout the US and Canada. She has been with TAT for two years and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Kellylynn McLaughlin was the Women In Trucking Association’s first Driver Ambassador. In this role, she traveled around the country educating those she met about the importance of the transportation industry and shares some of the challenges drivers face within the industry. She is currently a professional driver for Prime LTD.

Before she got in the driver’s seat, Kellylynn received a degree from the Oklahoma State University, served in the Peace Corps, worked internationally for a non-for-profit organization and was a professional instructor in passenger safety. It was as the Director of Logistics at a high school marching band that she discovered she loved everything about driving a truck and the problem solving it entailed.

Kellylynn is passionate about the trucking industry and is a tireless advocate for professional drivers. In addition to training new drivers to prepare them for the challenges they will face, she is also actively involved in sharing the “driver” perspective with decision makers in the industry. She firmly believes the general public should be educated about how important truck drivers are to the American economy and seeks to raise awareness about ways to support CMV drivers to do their jobs safely through her role as the Driver Ambassador.

She serves on the FMCSA MCSAC Commercial Driver Panel, the Advisory Council for Truckers Against Trafficking, and was honored to be a participant in the Executive Office of the President’s Gender Policy Council Roundtable Discussion in January 2022 and a finalist for the 2019 WIT Influential Woman in Trucking Award. Kellylynn currently serving as a member of both the Central & North Texas Freight Advisory Committee and the North American Strategy for Competitiveness (NASCO).

Kesha Sylvester serves as the Atlanta South Zone Transportation Division Manager at UPS. She is responsible for executing business strategies aligned with global supply chain solutions. These initiatives help optimize the transportation network, streamline operational costs and increase revenue. As a class A license holder and certified Tractor Trailer Driver Trainer she promotes a safety culture in accordance with UPS, DOT and OSHA guidelines.

In 2019, Kesha was featured in “Women in Trucking” for bringing gender diversity to transportation. She is a Co-chair/Executive Officer of the Women in Operations BRG and a mentor. Her passion for uplifting others is not new, as she is a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Development program which was rolled out in the Metro NY District in 2006.  

In addition to having over 20 years of operational experience, she holds an MBA in Global Leadership from Colorado Technical University and BA in Business from Baruch College. When she isn’t spending time with family and friends she enjoys dancing, kick boxing, adventure travel and volunteering at Camba, a local non-profit organization.