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Born and raised near Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, Nicholas DeFrancia Lumpp is a social entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

fighting human trafficking

Sexual slavery

Sexual slavery is when unwilling people are coerced into slavery for sexual exploitation. The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies...

. He is co-founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation

Somaly Mam Foundation

The Somaly Mam Foundation is a registered 501 nonprofit organization. The Foundation is dedicated to combating the global sex slave trade through supporting the rescue, rehabilitation, and reintegration of the victims and through raising global awareness on the issue...

along with Cambodian activist Somaly Mam

Somaly Mam

Somaly Mam is a Cambodian author and human rights advocate, focusing primarily on needs of victims of human sex trafficking, and has garnered official and media acclaim for her efforts.-Early life:...

and former Air Force

Air force

An air force, also known in some countries as an air army, is in the broadest sense, the national military organization that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy or...

comrade Jared Greenberg

Jared Greenberg

Jared S. Greenberg is a businessman and social activist. His passion to end sexual slavery created a unique partnership with Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Précaire President and world renowned activist Somaly Mam...

. The organization attracted support from notable people to include Susan Sarandon, Petra Nemcova, Ron Livingston, Daryl Hannah, Diane von Furstenburg and other influential people. The Somaly Mam Foundation has been featured in the New York Times, Fox News, Marie Claire, Glamour, CNN, and the Tyra Banks Show among others.

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