Tomas Perez

Tom is a leader, advocate, mobilizer and author. He began the Epik Project in 2011 with a simple vision to create meaningful onramps for men to engage the issue of commercial sexual exploitation. His work has resulted in an award winning, volunteer-driven intervention that has disrupted tens of thousands of online attempts to exploit vulnerable people by purchasing sex. He is the host of The Masculine Wilderness Podcast featuring local, national and global anti-trafficking and cultural leaders and influencers. Tom is an active member of several local and national collaborative efforts to eradicate commercial sexual exploitation. He is a contributing author for “When Men Buy Sex Who Really Pays?” by Andrea Heinz and Kathy King.  He serves on the Oregon Attorney General’s Trafficking Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the National Advisory Committee On The Sex Trafficking Of Youth In America - advising the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department. In 2024, Tom launched the Demand Collaborative, a global community of more than 100 survivors, leaders, activists and organizations all committed to advocating for individual and cultural accountability for the demand that fuels sex trafficking. Tom has presented both locally and nationally and these presentations include multiple regional and national conferences and the United Nations’ global Council on the Status of Women.