The two inspiring women are honored for their work and pledge to encourage action against the growing multi-billion dollar sex slave trade industry.

Tuesday night, The Somaly Mam Foundation and it's founder, Somaly Mam, were honored along with Lauren Bush (a niece of former President George W. Bush) for their work to help end the multi-billion dollar human sex slave trade industry. Mam is a slave survivor who has turned her unthinkable experience into awareness and action. Speaking to the audience at New York City's The Box nightclub, attended by a crowd of scenesters that included Amanda Brooks and Dylan and David Lauren (Bush's beau), Mam  said, "I was scared of my dreams."

Mam's dream started seven years ago when she envisioned the line of Somaly Mam empowerment scarves which launched yesterday and are made by rescued human slave survivors. Mam's courage and passion are documented in her autobiography, The Road to Lost Innocence, in which she writes, "People ask me how I can bear to keep doing what I do. I'll tell you. The evil that's been done to me is what propels me on. Is there any other way to exorcise it?" As a cost to the work she does, Mam lives in constant threat of violence and death to her and her family. Yet, she perseveres and to date the foundation has rescued over 6,000 young women and girls and set up the largest shelters in Southeast Asia.

Connoisseurs of the decadent burlesque shows at the Box would probably agree that the New York City nightclub's playhouse productions are good, but I doubt that the audience has ever held back tears. Such was not the case last night at the downtown venue, however, as Somaly Mam, a survivor of human trafficking, stood behind a podium onstage telling a group of Manhattan social scene-sters why she had chosen Feed co-founder and Lauren Piece clothing designer Lauren Bush as the evening's guest of honor. "Women like me feel dirty," Mam said in broken English to a crowd that included Bush's boyfriend, David Lauren; David's sister Dylan Lauren; Marc Jacobs's husband,