"When the opportunity came, she said, "I took my son and whatever I could carry, and I started walking." She also slipped a note to her neighbor, who helped Tish put some distance between herself and the man who'd kept her under his control for years. That was the first day of a process that led Tish out of the Central Valley to the Bay Area, where she found refuge through a nonprofit called Love Never Fails."
""I said, 'You know, Tish, I think you're an engineer,'" Russell recalled in a recent interview. She was right. Today, Tish works in Silicon Valley as a network engineer for Cisco Systems, after graduating at the top of her class in a tech academy run by Love Never Fails. "I didn't see myself doing something like this at all - my esteem just wasn't there yet. So having Vanessa see that potential in me before I even saw it, that opportunity was special," Tish said."
Tish escaped human trafficking by using a three-hour window when her exploiter left her alone with her son, fleeing with him and a neighbor's help. She traveled from the Central Valley to the Bay Area and entered a nonprofit program run by Love Never Fails. The organization provided a residence for survivors and access to an East Bay office. An executive director recognized engineering potential and enrolled her in a tech academy. Tish graduated top of her class and now works as a network engineer for Cisco Systems. Vanessa Russell founded Love Never Fails in 2011 to rescue and support trafficking victims.
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