Until All Are Free is an immersive podcast bearing witness to human rights violations worldwide through investigative storytelling and interviews with survivors, investigators, and advocates. Hosted by Preston Goff, VP of Global Communications at The Exodus Road, we bear witness to exploitation worldwide — from trafficking and forced labor to sextortion, climate displacement, and the systems that create vulnerability. We choose to not look away, but to be challenged and create a more free world.
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Shyam Kamble has spent 26 years fighting human trafficking in India — the last eleven with The Exodus Road, where he's helped bring justice and freedom to some 2,300 survivors. In this conversation, recorded in Bangkok, Shyam walks Preston through how trafficking actually works in India: the recruitment routes running out of Bangladesh, Nepal, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan; the pull of a city like…
While the world is often warned about a surge of trafficking victims that never fully manifest at large sporting events, a different harm was already underway in plain sight — in the labor camps, construction sites, and cleared neighborhoods that have historically made the World Cup tournaments possible. In Qatar, migrant workers recruited under false promises built the stadiums for 2022. In…
Before every major sporting event, like the World Cup, the Super Bowl, the same warning comes back around: tens of thousands of women and girls may be trafficked in for the event. In 2006, Germany was told to brace for 40,000. When the tournament was over, investigators could only connect five cases to it. In part one of The Cost of the Cup , we follow that number from the moment it was invented,…
“It wasn’t the only alley I was going down, it was just the alley I couldn’t figure out how to get back to.” - Matt Parker This summer, the world is watching the World Cup. Soon, we’ll be releasing a two-part series called The Cost of the Cup, examining two very different stories tied to the tournament: the trafficking myth you’ve heard a thousand times, and the human cost you’ve heard almost…
In this special episode of Until All Are Free , host Preston Goff sits down with The Exodus Road’s co-founder and CEO, Laura Parker, for an exclusive "watch party" and behind-the-scenes breakdown of the major Newsmax documentary, Stolen Lives: America's Human Trafficking Crisis . What started nearly 15 years ago as late-night conversations at a kitchen table has morphed into a global movement ,…
What do human rights actually look like at street level? Not in a courtroom or a policy brief — but on a single block in one of America's most misunderstood neighborhoods? In this episode of Until All Are Free , Preston Goff sits down with Edwin Desamour, Executive Director of The Lighthouse — a Kensington institution serving North Philadelphia youth and families since 1893. Edwin grew up on these…
The face of human trafficking is changing. Transnational criminal networks, scam compounds operating across borders, and the rise of "pig butchering" fraud have reshaped what exploitation looks like — and what it will take to disrupt it. On this episode of Until All Are Free , Preston sits down with TER Co-founder Matt Parker to talk about the organization's strategic pivot toward disrupting…
In November 2022, 17-year-old James Woods came home from school and signed onto Instagram. Within hours, he was being extorted by someone he'd never met. By the next morning, he was gone. In this episode, Preston sits down with James's father, Tim Woods, co-founder of the Do It For James Foundation. Tim shares — with extraordinary courage — who James was as a son, a runner, a chess player, and a…
Content Warning: Contains descriptions of sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Listener discretion advised. Not suitable for young listeners. A humid night in Southeast Asia. A tuk tuk driver, a laminated menu, and a corner of the world where exploitation hides in plain sight under neon light. In this episode, host Preston Goff takes listeners inside the red light districts of Thailand.…
We're back! Until All Are Free is returning reimagined, re-energized, and ready to go deeper. After years of telling stories from the frontlines of the fight against human trafficking, we're expanding our lens to shine a light on human rights violations and injustices around the world. From survivor testimony to investigative storytelling to conversations with the people closest to the fight, this…
