Press & Media
About Bek
Bek is a survivor-advocate, author, and founder. She is the author of Misaligned, a forthcoming memoir about realizing at thirty that she had been trafficked—and reconstructing how it happened through childhood, manipulation, identity fracture, and recovery. She is also the founder of The Connection Project, a community-based peer support initiative for survivor healing and prevention.
Bek's work spans personal narrative, advocacy, and community building. She writes about trauma, agency, and how survivors reconstruct their own stories. She speaks publicly about the shape of manipulation, the role of community in recovery, and how we build systems that prevent exploitation. She works directly with survivors through peer support and consultation.
Her platform, BekConnects, reaches [X subscribers] on newsletter and is actively building community across social channels. She is currently querying Misaligned to literary agents (early 2027).
About Misaligned
Misaligned is a survivor's reconstruction of trafficking. It traces how a teenager who felt unseen became a woman who didn't recognize the shape of her own exploitation until decades later. The book follows the thread backward—through childhood, first disclosures, identity fracture—and then forward, toward alignment and prevention. It is a story about what happens when the person who understands you best is the person harming you, and what it takes to understand yourself again.
Status: Manuscript in progress; querying early 2027.
Comparable titles:Know My Name (Chanel Miller), Educated (Tara Westover), Nobody's Girl (Virginia Roberts Giuffre).
Speaking Angles & Topics
The Shape of Manipulation in Intimate Contexts
How trafficking doesn't look like what people imagine. How it looks like care, understanding, and someone who gets you. Why recognizing it requires a shift in how we think about perpetrators.
Survivor Agency and Recovery as Reconstruction
What it means to rebuild your own narrative after your story has been told for you. How survivors regain authority over their own lives and voices.
Why Peer Connection is Essential to Survivor Healing
The limits of traditional therapy and clinical approaches. How community and peer support operate differently. Why survivors supporting survivors changes everything.
Media Topics
Survivor narrative and memoir · Trafficking awareness and prevention (non-sensationalized) · Trauma recovery and community-based healing · Nonprofit founding from lived experience · Women's agency and personal narrative · Mental health and peer support · Identity reconstruction after trauma
Get in Touch
Interested in interviewing Bek, booking her for a speaking engagement, or learning more about Misaligned or The Connection Project?
[Contact for Media Inquiries] — email form
Email: bekahrussell2241@gmail.com
Newsletter: substack.com/@bek1237478
Platform: bekconnects.com
Recent & Upcoming
[Updates, podcast appearances, speaking events, published pieces — to be updated as they happen]