Kyla Raby

Rights Lab Visiting Fellow in Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Justice, Policy and Practice

Email: kyla.raby@nottingham.ac.uk

Kyla Raby is an anti-trafficking specialist, currently based in Australia, with experience as a researcher, educator and practitioner. Her research has focused on the identification, protection, and support of survivors of human trafficking and slavery, and she collaborates within the Rights Lab on these topics. Kyla is the co-author of the textbook Modern Slavery in Australia (2024) and has designed, implemented, and managed support services for survivors of human trafficking and slavery in the United Kingdom and Australia. She is a delegate with the International Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement which has seen her deployed to migration crisis’ in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and Northern Greece, a Non-Executive Director of Be Slavery Free, and was an inaugural member of the New South Wales Anit-Slavery Commissioners advisory panel. She is the founder of Everyday Slavery which is an education-based initiative on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube which received start-up funding from the Australian Government through the National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery 2020-2025. She is currently completing her doctoral research at the University of South Australia, examining the responsibility placed on consumers by Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) and the absence of lived experience in its development