Our Team

Jennifer Roemhildt Tunehag’s ministry began in Athens, Greece, where she served women and men exploited in prostitution for over a decade, starting a local ministry that continues to build bridges of help and hope there.  Jennifer later worked with colleagues to create the European Freedom Network (EFN).   She continues to serve the network in the area of church engagement.

She is tasked with church engagement and network development for the World Freedom Network.  “Fighting human trafficking may seem like a specialized calling,” Tunehag says, “but we believe that the Church has a unique and crucial role in prevention and restoration.”

She is also active in developing business solutions to address human trafficking.  Jennifer helped start the Freedom Business Alliance, a global network of enterprises creating healing jobs for survivors of exploitation.  She is married to Mats Tunehag, a global leader in the Business as Mission (BAM) movement.  The couple lives in Sweden and Washington, DC.

Bibiana MacLeod MD MA (Wheaton, Humanitarian & Disaster Leadership) serves as Technical Advisor for Disaster Response for Medical Ambassadors International. Wearing many hats, she also coordinates MAI’s involvement with anti-trafficking initiatives, work with oral cultures, MAI’s 1000 Days program in Haiti, and trauma healing groups.  Prior to her current role, Bibiana trained as an internal medicine physician in Argentina and served for 18 years in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.  Fluent in Spanish and Haitian Creole, Bibiana would serve for 15 years as MAI’s Regional Coordinator for South America and the Caribbean, helping to grow over 100 community health evangelism programs all coordinated by national partners and local leaders.  Bibiana is a co-founder of the Latin American Anti-trafficking Network under the World Evangelical Alliance, is a strong believer in kingdom collaboration, and dreams of a world where modern slavery no longer exists – “I love Jesus and live for His Kingdom to be here among us.”  Bibiana and her husband Alexander are based in Cape Breton in eastern Canada.

Silvia Brynjolfson is from Argentina where, upon graduating from the Biblical Institute of Buenos Aires, she moved to Canada to study at Regent College. After completing her studies Silvia began her career as a missionary serving with WEC International in Spain, later married with her first child, in Equatorial Guinea, and eventually back to Vancouver where she and her husband were the founders of a missionary training centre. It was during this stage that Silvia became aware of the WEA and the Women’s Commission.  Silvia began a new career teaching Spanish at Trinity Western University and to support this she pursued further studies eventually completing 2 additional master’s and a doctorate in modern languages. During these years Silvia also became associated with a prayer movement called WakeUp Deborah and began to build the Spanish network which now enjoys a presence in 20 countries. The vision of this movement summarized in three words – prayer, action, and compassion – led Silvia to become involved with the WEA Women’s Commission, and the Anti-human Trafficking Task Force. While serving as the coordinator for the WEA Women’s Commission in Latin America Silvia became aware of other women with an interest or an involvement in anti-human trafficking. Now as a Co-founder of the Latin Forum Fight Against Human Trafficking, Silvia and her colleague Bibiana MacLeod are building a network in Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Presently there are over 200 members from 20 countries.

Jason Pope is the Executive Director and Founder of the Rain Collective. Jason is also a PhD candidate at Clemson University. Jason has led anti-human trafficking initiatives for the Salvation Army World Service Office for seven years, working on trafficking issues. The projects worked in the Gulf states and countries that send migrants into the Middle East, and supporting work with Ethiopian and Philippine embassies in the Gulf states.

Sarah Scott Webb is the co-founder/leader of SIM International’s global anti-trafficking ministry, For Freedom, and is the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission‘s anti-trafficking specialist.

She has been involved in anti-trafficking since 2005, when she volunteered as a music therapist with an organization based in South-East Asia. Since then, Sarah has worked in anti-trafficking roles with NGOs in Australia and New Zealand, and has a Masters in International Relations, specialising in legal, cultural and gender issues surrounding human trafficking.

In her current role with SIM, she is developing an integrated prevention approach to human trafficking and providing strategic guidance and training to workers around the world. She is passionate about trauma-informed care and is currently coordinating the European Freedom Network’s Trauma Response team, providing training and resources to churches and volunteers throughout Europe who are supporting Ukrainian refugees.

Helen Avadiar-Nimbalker is a certified trauma therapist and trainer with a vast experience working with women and children impacted by exploitation and trauma. She is the founder of two social justice organisations in Thailand and Malaysia: The Voice Wagon and The Whispering Willow, focusing on awareness, aftercare, and prevention of slavery and human trafficking. Over the past decade, Helen has created training modules for churches, organisations, and individuals with an aim to see trauma informed communities equipped with the tools to care for each other within a safe space. Helen is an ordained minister with the Apostolic Faith Church.