Laila Mickelwait

Laila Mickelwait is an American anti-sex trafficking activist and CEO who founded the Justice Defense Fund. She founded the global Traffickinghub movement to "shut down Pornhub" for the distribution and monetization of sexual crime in 2020 and continues to lead the effort. Mickelwait's Traffickinghub petition to "shut down Pornhub and hold its executives accountable for aiding trafficking" has garnered over 2 million signatures from 192 countries and has played an important role in her fight for accountability. Mickelwait's activism and leadership of the Traffickinghub movement played a pivotal role in Visa, Mastercard and Discover cutting all ties with Pornhub and Pornhub removing over 80 percent of the site's content, totaling over 30 million images and 10 million videos in what Financial Times called "probably the biggest takedown of content in internet history."