Brandless Beauties

Mike Prickett worked several years with a small local non-profit called Survivors Ink which helped human trafficking survivors cover up “brands” which are tattoos or other unwanted markings that these individuals received while being trafficked. These marks were meant to be dehumanizing as to show that they were property, more like cattle than people.

When survivors made it far enough in their recovery, or healing from their traumas, endured during their time being trafficked they could then apply to have such markings that served as a reminder of their past covered with new and positive tattoos.

When the founder of Survivor’s Ink, Jennifer Kempton passed in 2017 the organization held on but eventually dissolved. Today Mike Prickett is currently donating his time with a new program called Brandless Beauties with the help of another Columbus-based non-profit Freedom al a Cart. This is a new and exciting chapter in helping survivors in our community!