Alexis has been working since 2005 at University College Utrecht as a senior lecturer in criminology (teaching courses on Criminology, Violence and Aggression, Transnational and International Crime and Criminal Justice Responses, and Human Trafficking: An International Perspective) and academic advisor. She supervises theses and currently serves as a member of the Examination Board.

She received her Masters and PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Albany, New York. From 1986 to 1994, she served as instructor and Law Enforcement Program Manager in Berlin, Germany, and Law Enforcement Program Coordinator Europe in Kaiserslautern, Germany for Central Texas College.

Alexis moved to the Netherlands in 1994 and worked as a researcher for the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, the International Police Institute Twente (University of Twente) and RADAR, an anti-discrimination bureau in Rotterdam. From December 1999 through March 2002, Alexis conducted and coordinated research on human trafficking at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute continuing to serve as a consultant on projects on human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Upon returning to the Netherlands, Alexis served as a project coordinator for the Police Research Program.

She continues to work as an independent consultant and has contributed to projects on human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, the International Organization for Migration, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (University of Tilburg), Human Rights First, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organize Crime, Management Systems International and Winrock International. Alexis has served as a visiting professor teaching a course on human trafficking at universities in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands. She has been invited to speak on human trafficking at the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), the Vatican and the European Parliament, and has published extensively on the topic of human trafficking and hate crimes. Her book, Human Trafficking, Human Misery The Global Trade in Human Beings, was published by Praeger in 2009. Her second book, Human Trafficking: A Reference Handbook, was published in 2017.

Trafficking in Human Beings: Between Myths and Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uitf1eQW0ms

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