Featured Speaker:
Rachel Monaco-Wilcox
Founder & CEO, LOTUS Legal Clinic, Inc.
Rachel Monaco-Wilcox is the founder and CEO of LOTUS, a legal clinic for victims of trafficking and other forms of gender-based violence. She started LOTUS while chair and professor of the Justice Department at Mount Mary University, where she still teaches in the art therapy doctoral program. Rachel has a private practice in mediation for trusts and estates, elder law and special needs issues, and is a frequent speaker and trainer on victims’ rights, human trafficking, dispute resolution and systems change. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study modern Greek poetry before a life in law consumed her. In 2015, she received the Thrive award for survivor advocacy from Aurora Health Care and was named as a member of Milwaukee Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 class.
She enjoys distance running, her husband’s maple syrup and her two dogs.