Kate Price
Associate Research Scientist
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston
- CV
Research areas: Investigation and prevention of child sex trafficking
Kate Price, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, where she studies family-controlled commercial sexual exploitation of children and state-level child sex trafficking policy.
She is an advisor for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a member of the Northeast Pennsylvania Task Force Against Human Trafficking, and an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center. She is a survivor of familial child sex trafficking, and in August 2025, her memoir This Happened to Me: A Reckoning was published by Simon & Schuster. The Washington Post included This Happened to Me in its list of 10 noteworthy books for July and August, and Oprah Daily listed it as one of The Books That Got Us Through 2025.
An internationally recognized child sex trafficking expert, Price has influenced the passage of state-level children's human rights legislation and United Nations child sex trafficking policy. She lectures regularly at academic conferences, universities, and non-governmental organization meetings, and her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals. Price is the recipient of a My Life, My Choice Beacon of Light Award, a Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize medal, a Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award from the International Center for Research on Women, and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship.
Prior to her current appointment, Price was a WCW visiting scholar while she completed a writing project in collaboration with Boston Globe journalist Janelle Nanos: Kate Price remembers something terrible. Nanos was named a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the piece.
