Published Media
Two decades of telling the truth about trafficking.
A comprehensive archive of features, opinion writing, essays, statements, and television appearances — from the earliest FAIR Girls essays to Believe Me and the work still unfolding.
As seen in
The archive
Book, essays, op-eds, features, and statements — in reverse chronological order.
2025
1 piece
2024
4 pieces
July 2024
World Changers Media
Believe Me: The True Story of How a Trafficked Teen and Her Advocate Changed the Justice System and Found True Freedom
April 2024
Ms. Magazine
The Rise of Deepfakes Demands Legislative Action
October 2024
Medium
Submission to Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, U.S. Department of Justice — in support of the UN Convention Against Cybercrime
October 2024
Medium
Launch of STISA: A Groundbreaking Initiative to Combat Image-Based Sexual Abuse
2023
2 pieces
2021
10 pieces
December 2021
Medium
Statement from Andrea Powell, co-founder of FAIR Girls
October 2021
The Lily · Washington Post
She was a victim of child sex trafficking — and sent to prison. Now she has a chance at freedom.
October 2021
Medium
Press Advisory: On October 27th a critical hearing will determine if incarcerated child sex trafficking survivor Tiffany Simpson will have a chance at freedom
September 2021
Medium
How did R. Kelly pull off sexually abusing and trafficking women and girls for over three decades?
September 2021
Medium
The tragedy of Gabby Petito's disappearance and death highlights why so many missing girls are never looked for or found.
September 2021
Medium
Two Child Survivors of Sex Trafficking Are Among Many Arrested and Incarcerated Rather Than Protected
June 2021
Medium
Our Legal System Can and Must Do Better Than Locking Up Survivors of Sex Trafficking. Here Is Why.
May 2021
Medium
Hundreds raise support for incarcerated child survivors of human trafficking
April 2021
Medium
Press Advisory: Lack of Love, a newly released short documentary supports the efforts to free Tiffany Simpson
January 2021
Medium
Sex Trafficking Victim Lisa Montgomery's Execution Would Be The Last Injustice in Her Tragic Life
2020
4 pieces
September 2020
Medium
Why Breonna Taylor's death shows the devaluation of Black women's bodies in America — and what allies in the sex trafficking movement can do today (with Fecha Taleso)
July 2020
Medium
Is Ghislaine Maxwell a Sex Trafficker?
June 2020
Medium
By Survivors, For Survivors: Karana Rising's June Update
April 2020
Medium
If you cannot address one woman with integrity, can you run a country with it?
2019
3 pieces
August 2019
NBC News · Think
Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but victims of sex trafficking everywhere deserve justice
February 2019
NBC News · Think
Why was Robert Kraft only charged with solicitation of prostitution in a sex trafficking case?
January 2019
NBC News · Think
Cyntoia Brown's clemency must begin a #MeToo movement for unacknowledged sex trafficking survivors
2017
2 pieces
2015
2 pieces
2013
2 pieces
Ongoing column
Investigative Series on the Tech Fueling Sex Trafficking.
My investigative series brings tech, law, crime, and — most importantly — survivor experiences together to deeply detail how sex trafficking has moved online. Through the lives of over 700 victims in the US, France, and South Korea, we see where systems are failing and where we can effect change. This ongoing series can be found at STISA.
Read the STISA archive- The internet is a crime scene — and survivors are the ones cleaning it up.
- What image-based sexual abuse actually is (and why the law keeps missing it).
- Deepfakes, dignity, and the girls who never consented to be seen.
- Why platform accountability is a survivor-justice issue.
- Notes from the frontlines: building STISA with survivors in the lead.
- See every essay →
Survivor voices I've platformed
Not every piece under my byline is my own words.
A number of essays published under my Medium account are guest pieces written by Karana Rising survivors — including Tiffany Simpson and Amy Cage — that I edited and published so their voices could reach a wider audience. Titles include "What Does It Mean to Be Truly Free?", "Believing In Yourself Is How Justice Begins", "The Secret to Ending Human Trafficking Is Community", and "Questions from the Mother of Two Incarcerated Child Victims".
Platforming survivor voices is part of the work — but the archive above is limited to writing that is my own.
Full Medium archive →Affiliated projects
The organizations carrying this work forward.
The Believe Me Project
The advocacy home of the book — resources, speaking, and campaigns to end the criminalization of trafficking survivors.
Visit →STISA Network
The Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse Network — writing, research, and organizing at the edge of technology and consent.
Visit →Digital Identity Foundation
Building the legal, technical, and cultural infrastructure to protect identity and image in a synthetic-media era.
Visit →
Featured on OWN
3AM Girls with Lisa Ling.
Lisa Ling spent time inside FAIR Girls for OWN's Our America, sitting with the young women Andrea worked alongside and the advocates building the safety net around them. A rare, unhurried look at the daily work — and at what believing a survivor actually asks of us.
Film · Co-writer
Lack of Love.
A five-minute documentary — with What Took You So Long
A short documentary I co-wrote with the global film collective What Took You So Long. Five minutes on what happens when a child is failed by every system built to love her — and what advocacy looks like when we finally stop looking away.
VOGUE
Featured in Vogue
Mara Hoffman — for Vogue
"I am deeply inspired by each of the activists and artists involved in this portrait series and I hope that by lending my platform I can amplify their voices and make sure their work reaches even more people. Andrea is an inspiration for all women — not just those who identify as survivors."
Television & appearances
On air, on stage, on the record.
Feb 2013
OWN · Our America with Lisa Ling
"3AM Girls Update: One Year Later"
Jan 2013
The Katie Show
With Asia Graves and Jada Pinkett Smith on "The War on Human Trafficking"
Sep 2012
MSNBC · Melissa Harris-Perry
With FAIR Girls survivor advocate Asia Graves
Aug 2012
Marie Claire
"Girls 4 Sale" — profile of FAIR Girls
Mar 2012
The New York Times · Nicholas Kristof
"Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods"
Recognition
Honors along the way.
2018
Distinguished Alumni Award
College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University
2015
Woman of Excellence
Office of the Mayor, District of Columbia
2014
Public Service Award
U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime
2012
People's Choice Award — Nominee
Diane von Furstenberg Family Foundation
Press & booking
Interviews, panels, and features — welcome.
For press inquiries, review copies of Believe Me, or speaking bookings, reach out and I'll respond personally.