Kylla Lanier is the Deputy Director and co-founder of Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT), a 501(c)3 organization that exists to educate, equip, empower and mobilize members of the trucking, bus and energy industries to combat domestic sex trafficking. She is responsible for implementation of vision, state based initiatives, training, partnership development and national promotion of organization. She speaks on human trafficking and how the transportation industry is proactive in preventing and combatting it at conferences, in print, on radio, television, film, press conferences, universities, trucking shows and trucking industry meetings and makes operational decisions for TAT. She is responsible for implementation of TAT’s programming, including the Iowa Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE) model and pertinent legislation in all 50 states and also conducts in-depth law enforcement trainings around the nation. She consults with international agencies that seek to replicate TAT’s model and instructs audiences on best practices for engaging industry in the fight against human trafficking.

TAT won the 2017 Linking Arms Award, the 2017 American Trucking Associations Mike Russell Trucking Image Award, 2015 Suzanne McDaniel Memorial Award for Public Awareness from Congress, the 2012 Norma Hotaling Award for Innovative Demand Reduction from Global Centurion, been recognized by the United Nations as one of the 100 Best Practices for Combatting Human Trafficking in 2013, been recognized on the Congressional floor for its grassroots efforts, received multiple special recognition awards from the trucking industry and received the Award of Service in 2014 from the Trafficking in America Taskforce.

Ms. Lanier has been involved in the fight against human trafficking since 2007 when she helped initiate the state coalition against trafficking in Oklahoma. In addition to her human trafficking work, she has authored a book called My Life Crazy about her missionary experiences working with gangs in El Salvador in the mid-1990s. She was also named Broken Arrow Public Schools District Teacher of the Year in 2011.