Robert Lung
In addition to working in his current full-time position with the Colorado Judiciary, Robert provides presentations nationally and internationally on issues such as human trafficking, childhood trauma and resiliency. Robert presents to diverse audiences including law enforcement, social service caseworkers, attorneys, the military, judicial officers, nurses, first responders, faith-based organizations and others. Robert presented at several national Juvenile Sex Trafficking Conferences hosted by Shared Hope International including in Washington, D.C., Orlando, FL, Phoenix, AZ and New Orleans, LA from 2013 to 2017.
In 2016 Robert was appointed to the Colorado Human Trafficking Council by then Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Nancy Rice to represent the Colorado Judiciary. In 2017 then President Barack Obama selected Robert to serve on the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States. And in 2018, Robert was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.
In 2019 Robert serves as the Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, the Vice-Chair of the Colorado Human Trafficking Council and as a consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice, the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center through the Office of Trafficking in Persons and on the Human Trafficking Expert Consultant Network for the State Department. Robert is current working on his first book, a biography of trafficking, trauma, resiliency, faith and above all else, hope. In his “free” time Robert endeavors to keep up with his two adopted sons in hiking, downhill mountain biking and dirt biking.