JESSICA LAMB is the founder of Atlanta Redemption Ink, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization offering tattoo covers or removals to survivors of exploitation, trauma, and abuse. They provide support services, tattoo removals, and cover-ups to survivors of sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, self-harm, addiction, and former gang involvement, nationally. Their heart is to see restoration brought to the survivor and hope prevail.
A Survivor of childhood exploitation, founder Jessica Lamb has always had a heart for outreach and local missions. Her world began crashing around her at the age of 14/15 as Jessica was being groomed and sexually abused by a friend of the family of their church. This led to a downward spiral of self-harm, and she started experimenting with drugs. Jessica dropped out of high school and was kicked out of her home as a minor. She answered an ad in a local paper for a customer service rep and was coerced by a trafficker. She was tattooed and exploited for 5 years thru backpage, CL, and other various methods. She managed to escape nearly losing her life. This led to a downward spiral into further addiction and abusive relationships.
Jessica stepped into recovery in May 2008 and turned her life over to God. Her first trafficker is now serving a life sentence in prison for trafficking, multiple counts of battery, multiple counts of statutory rape and murder. Her “brandings/tattoos” were covered in 2016. Soon after ARI was birthed to reach survivors and advocate for transformation.
She trains MDT locally on her lived experience and the mission of Ari and tattoo pattern recognition