Retained Expert — Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence & Gender-Based Violence

Miiko Anderson is a retained subject matter expert with nearly two decades of courtroom experience prosecuting crimes against persons — human trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault, involving both adult and child victims. A California Certified Criminal Law Specialist and law professor teaching Human Trafficking Law and Policy, she has worked with hundreds of victims and trained law enforcement, prosecutors, and allied professionals on these case types.

Areas of expertise include:

• Human trafficking dynamics — recruitment and grooming, coercive control, victim-trafficker relationships, and why victims stay, return, or protect their traffickers

• Domestic violence victim behavior — recantation, minimization, and non-participation with prosecution; what these behaviors do and don't mean

• Counterintuitive victim behavior and trauma responses — delayed disclosure and trauma bonding, explained in terms a jury can use

• Investigative and prosecutorial standards — protocol and practice in trafficking, DV, and sexual assault cases

Services: pre-filing case evaluation and consultation · case file and records review · expert reports · deposition and trial testimony · consulting (non-testifying) expert engagements · attorney and trial-team education

Available to prosecution and defense, civil and criminal, state and federal.