children. The corresponding campaign website, www.demandingjustice.org, contains information about buyers convicted of purchasing sex with a minor. Media/public appearances As an expert on trafficking, Smith has spoken out against the trafficking of women and children in numerous Congressional hearings and in national and international forums, such as the World Conference on Trafficking, Congressional Hearing on the International Violence Against Women Act along with Ambassador Melanee Verveer and UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman, and the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission on the Protection of Children. At the Helsinki Commission Hearing in 2006, Smith testified about the Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in America. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, Dan Rather Reports, ABC News, the Dr. Phil Show, O'Reilly Factor, and CBN. She received the 2009 Soroptimist Making a Difference for Women Award and the 2010 Soroptimist Ruby Award: For Women Helping Women. Smith has been published in news outlets and journals around the world; including The New York Times, the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, the International Review of Penal Law, and the Regent University Law Review. Further reading Linda Smith, Renting Lacy: A Story of America's Prostituted Children (Shared Hope International, 2009) See also Women in the United States House of Representatives Notes External links http://www.sharedhope.org https://web.archive.org/web/20101118074621/http://www.thedefendersusa.org/ Electoral history 1998 Race for U.S. Senate Patty Murray (D) (inc.), 58% Linda Smith (R), 42% |- |- 1950 births American Pentecostals Anti–human trafficking activists Female members of the United States House of Representatives Living people Republican Party members of the Washington House of Representatives People from La Junta, Colorado Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Washington (state) Republican Party Washington (state) state senators Women state legislators in Washington (state) Writers from Colorado Writers from Washington (state) 21st-century American women