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Little Flower Advisory Board

America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Little Flower Advisory Board members listed below have dedicated their lives to educating, helping, and inspiring others through their professional work and personal lives. As they join together as one unified team of experts and leaders of this important Project, they pledge their time and talent to the future of America – our precious children.

Silvia Almond

SILVIA ALMOND

For over 27 years, Silvia Almond has served as a missionary throughout Central and South America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Haiti, serving with numerous organizations and evangelists, and providing humanitarian efforts, medical clinics, crusades, evangelism, and women’s and children’s ministry with her organization, In His Service Ministries.

While in Peru in 2005, Silvia learned about human trafficking, and since has been involved in the fight, advocating for trafficking survivors around the world, including the USA, and specifically in Florida where she resides.

Since 2016, she has worked with Breaking Chains and Finding Freedom International as part of its operations that rescues girls from brothels both in Latin America and other countries. She continues to work with the rescued victims in an ongoing effort to provide them with the services they need to rebuild their lives.

In addition, Silvia serves as an ambassador with World Relief of Florida as a volunteer for over 10 years. In this role, she works with international human trafficking victims/survivors. In 2017, she was hired as a staff member of World Relief as the Human Trafficking Community Coordinator and Volunteer Director. Her role is to educate the community about human trafficking issues and to support the needs of refugees and survivors relocating to Florida, working with community organizations to provide the services they need.

Since 2010, she has been with Grace Ministries, helping women coming off the streets and addictions, leaving jail, and those who are victims of human trafficking. In her role, Silvia helps with jail visitation, conducts one-on-one mentoring, and helps connect women with local assistance.

She is also a member of the S.O.A.P. Organization (Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution) and currently serves as President. As the leader of S.O.A.P., Silvia provides human trafficking education, especially during sporting events such as TPC, FL/GA games, and other events, reaching out to over 75 hotels in the community.

Silvia has been a part of the Human Trafficking Coalition in Jacksonville, FL since 2010, serving as an ambassador for the Coalition, educating the community about human trafficking as well as providing aid and services to victims and survivors. She took on the role of the Coalition’s Education and Outreach Awareness Committee Chair and continues to bring awareness and education to the community, colleges, public schools, and other area organizations.

Her passion and efforts in working to fight human trafficking and helping victims/survivors have gained her recognition, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards from Jacksonville, Florida law enforcement, the community at large, and nationally.

Silvia was the first recipient of an award for service from the Human Trafficking Coalition of Jacksonville and was the recipient of the Community Hero award by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce of Jacksonville. She was also recognized with an award by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Jacksonville for fighting against human trafficking. In addition, she was honored nationally as one of the recipients of the Liberator Award by S.O.A.P.

Baz Bazzel

BAZZEL BAZ

Baz is known as “the Patron Saint for Missing Kids.” He is a former CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Paramilitary Case Officer, recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal, former counter-terrorism officer in the United States Marine Corps and a graduate of The Citadel.

In 1993 Baz founded the Association for the Recovery of Children [ARC], an organization comprised of former and active intelligence, military, and law enforcement personnel dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited American children, in foreign and domestic locations. In 2019, on the invitation of the White House and DOJ, Baz introduced ARC’s legislative initiative involving severe penalties for those who sexually exploit any child under the age of 18 in the U.S.

Baz is well-known globally for his expertise and extraordinary skillset. Author of Terrorism Survival Handbook, he has been called on by CNN and MSNBC as an advisor and spokesperson on the war on Terrorism and Homeland Security. He is also a film and television writer, producer, and actor. Bazzel Baz co-starred as the commander of Raymond Reddington’s paramilitary group on NBC’s “The Blacklist” for four seasons.

As a Life Coach, Baz travels nationally and internationally to provide breakthroughs to awesome performance with an uncanny ability to bring simple solutions to complicated scenarios. He is a well-sought-after motivational speaker and “life guarantor” for people entering high-threat environments.

Tina Baz

TINA BAZ

Tina Baz is Human Trafficking Program Director and Legislative Liaison for ARC – The Association for the Recovery of Children. Tina has a life-long history of involvement in philanthropic causes in the US and South America. In 2021-2022 Tina was listed in Who’s Who in America. For the past decade she has been professionally engaged in combating sex trafficking in the US, specializing in child sex trafficking prevention, locating victims, assisting victims of gang/organized crime trafficking, victim advocacy and victim services.

Having worked extensively with victims who are being actively sex trafficked, those who want to get out and those in recovery, she possesses a wealth of street-level insight into the vulnerabilities, traumas, and the needs of victims as well as the inner workings of the commercial sex trade, gang trafficking and the human trafficking criminal enterprise. Tina has spearheaded collaborative emergency response programs that provide rescue, triage evaluation, care and connection to residential placement and services for sex trafficking victims.

Tina participates in several anti-human trafficking task forces and collaborations. By building relationships with elected officials, District Attorneys’ offices and state and federal legislators, she is able to provide accurate, critical knowledge that influences human trafficking policies, laws and new legislation.

A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Tina began a marketing career in 1994 at Insight for Living, Dr. Charles Swindoll’s radio broadcast network. She later launched her own marketing and management LLC, which is still active, specializing in graphic design, web design, e-commerce, merchandising, sound/video recording and editing. She is also skilled as a writer-editor and publicist.

In the 2000’s, Tina built a career in the music industry as a keyboard/vocalist, production manager, recording producer and became artist manager for Darrell Mansfield (Blues Hall of Fame “Blues Master” inductee) from 2009-present. She served for several years as an associate member of The Recording Academy (GRAMMY’s).

Jaco Booyens

JACO BOOYENS

Jaco Booyens is a native of South Africa and an American citizen. Jaco is a diversified entrepreneur in several entities and industries. He is a bold leader that promotes morality and Christianity in the United States and abroad.

As the oldest brother of a sex trafficking survivor his sister Ilonka, in 2001 Jaco turned abolitionist. Jaco produces and directs feature films, documentaries and television shows that transforms culture for the better by bringing to light God’s character. He produced and directed the feature film “8 DAYS,” which his wife, award-nominated writer Philipa Booyens wrote, inspired by actual events of sex trafficking within the United States.

Jaco is a world-renowned speaker and expert in combatting sex trafficking. He launched red carpet events to screen the film and bring awareness and donations to local anti-trafficking organizations within the USA and fifty-six other countries including South Africa. Children have been rescued, brothels shut down and Jaco has become a trusted voice in the anti-trafficking community worldwide with over 20 years of experience bringing awareness, influencing policy, and fighting this crime.

He actively fights against child sex trafficking and the sexualization of children in the USA, giving aid and linking with agencies such as the TSA, FBI, Police Departments, CIA, ICE and Homeland Security SRT, foreign agencies, and over 170 NGOs in 56 countries around the world. Jaco serves on several anti-trafficking boards, was a former Fellow of the Falkirk Center at Liberty University, and actively engages in the support of organizations in this battle.

He appears weekly on local, national and international television and radio shows including The Blaze – News And Why It Matters, FOX’s Mark Levin (Life Liberty & Levin), Fox Business Lou Dobbs, Fox National and regional, OAN, CBS, Steve Harvey, Real America’s Voice, TruTV and other shows, news articles, podcasts and live streams, Op Ed’s and more.

Jaco is actively involved in legislation reform, frequently supporting Senate and Congress with solutions to transform problematic areas relating to sex trafficking and the education of children.

Some of Jaco’s featured projects in the works are the feature film “8Days” (fighting sex trafficking), the documentary “SEX Nation” – in production, the TV drama series “PIECES” – in post-production and the race reconciliation feature film “We Are Brothers,” and the TV drama, “The Atonement of Carmen Lizardo” – in pre-production.

Jaco’s love for God and belief that every human being is created for a divine purpose drives him and his family to bring hope and purpose to all people.

Liz Crokin

LIZ CROKIN

Liz Crokin is an award-winning author, an independent investigative journalist and a documentary film producer best known for her relentless work exposing sex trafficking.

Liz executive produced Slave Princess released in the fall of 2021. The documentary film covered Britney Spears’s illicit conservatorship and the systematic corruption surrounding it involving media, Hollywood and the government. In spring of 2020, Liz appeared in the viral documentary Out Of Shadows that has been viewed by over 100 million people globally and translated into over two-dozen languages.

In 2016, Liz broke several exclusive viral stories for the New York Observer on the presidential election and corruption in media and big tech. Her stories received millions of impressions and some were featured on the front-page of the Drudge Report. Liz published a political-romantic thriller, Malice, which received an award at the Hollywood Book Festival in 2015.

Liz has worked for various major media companies over the course of two decades. She started as a wire reporter covering hard news at the City News bureau at the Chicago Tribune. She ran a weekly gossip column in the RedEye Edition of the Chicago Tribune for seven years. She also had a regular column in the Chicago Sun-Times: Splash & Townhall.

She’s worked as a senior reporter for Us Weekly and also as an editor for both In Touch Weekly and Star magazines. Her work has also been featured at Daily Caller, Elite Daily, and Marie Claire. In her early years, she interned for the State Department’s White House correspondent in the White House and trained with Bill O’Reilly during a summer internship at Fox News. Liz graduated from the University of Iowa in 2001 with a degree in journalism and political science.

Brian Gamble

Brian Gamble

Brian Gamble is an accomplished data sciences professional and tech visionary with over three decades of experience in the industry. Throughout his distinguished career, Brian has left indelible marks across diverse sectors, holding pivotal positions, including the role of Chief Information Officer for a prominent Fortune 500 enterprise.

Early in his career, Brian served as an intelligence analyst in the United States Navy during his deployment to the war in the former Yugoslavia. This experience wielded a transformative impact on Brian, charting his lifelong course to shed light on the techniques employed by deep state actors to manipulate the behaviors and cognitions of his fellow countrymen.

For years since leaving the military, Brian balanced his role as a corporate leader, employing technology to confront global challenges during the day while discretely fostering awareness regarding deep state activities online by night.

This rhythm was disrupted when Brian noticed the rapid rise of online censorship. To combat this threat, in 2019, Brian founded a free-speech organization to give a voice to those silenced by big tech. He embarked on a nationwide journey, raising awareness about the growing dangers posed by emerging technologies and the influence of big tech on free speech.

Driven by his passion for exposing the evolving technocracy in the United States, Brian eventually completely transitioned away from the corporate world, which he viewed as increasingly hostile towards his traditional American values.

Brian now supports organizations dedicated to uncovering and exposing illegal activities within national institutions, striving to safeguard the principles of justice and transparency.

Alicia Kutzer

ALICIA KUTZER, ESQ. LL.M, M.H.A.

Alicia Kutzer is a managing partner of Kutzer Law Firm, LLC. She focuses her practice on corporate and transactional law, nonprofit governance, administrative law, and health law, with significant experience in constitutional law, criminal defense, complex civil litigation, contract disputes, and trusts and estates. She has represented clients in all stages of litigation and appeal. She routinely advises nonprofit and private sector clients on regulatory, transactional, dispute resolution, and complex governance matters.

Her extensive legal experience spans over a decade and includes presiding as an Administrative Law Judge for Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services and serving on the Luzerne County Board of Arbitrators. Additionally, Attorney Kutzer served as an Appeals and Post-Adjudication Officer and lead attorney on a diverse range of Medicare matters for the federal government, including issues regarding fraud, due process, and program integrity.

She was commissioned to author several accredited course books focusing on Medicare and healthcare provider regulatory compliance matters for one of the largest healthcare educational organizations in the U.S. In addition, Attorney Kutzer has delivered week-long credentialed seminars to physicians, attorneys, administrative law judges, and healthcare administrators across the country.

Attorney Kutzer is the primary contributing writer for America’s Future books, Exploring America’s Founding Documents and Understanding the Separation of Powers Principles. In addition, she has written extensively on a wide range of legal topics including agency law, constitutional law, parental rights, administrative law, and healthcare regulations.

She is admitted to practice law throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. She received her LL.M. in Corporate Law and Finance from Widener University School of Law in Delaware as well as her Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration from Pennsylvania State University.

LARA LOGAN

LARA LOGAN

Lara Logan is an award-winning investigative journalist. She is known internationally for her fearless and candid reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world in her role at “60 Minutes” and for her investigative series “Lara Logan Has No Agenda.” Lara has covered some of the most controversial topics of our time such as media bias, Mexican drug cartels, trafficking, and the dangers of Big Tech.

With decades of honest reporting and speaking up for the truth regardless of the politics, Lara is a powerful voice for freedom and liberty around the world. Her trusted reporting has helped the public understand the political and human conflicts that exist in America and around the globe. Her skilled approach to investigative journalism has earned her a prominent place among the world’s best foreign correspondents. She is the recipient of almost every journalistic and reporting award in the profession including the highly prestigious duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, the Overseas Press Club, the Emmys, and the RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award, to name a few.

Presently, she is planning the launch of her new show and establishing the “Press Club of America” as a home for independent journalism that carries on the principles and standards of the past, while creating a solid foundation for the media moving forward.

Ben Moore

BEN MOORE, ESQ.

Ben is a partner with Kinney & Moore, PLLC. As a trial lawyer, Ben represents individuals in matters related to wrongful death, trucking accidents, motor vehicle accidents, and other catastrophic accidents throughout Florida. Prior to representing individuals, he was an in-house trial lawyer for Nationwide Insurance Company and has also represented businesses and individuals in a wide array of civil/business litigation over the years. Ben was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, and lives in St. Johns, Florida with his three kids.

Ben is actively involved in his local community through various non-profits and his church. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Learning Center of Jacksonville, and he also enjoys using his legal services to help local and state-wide non-profits in the fight against human and child trafficking. He serves on America’s Future Project Defend & Protect Our Children Little Flower Advisory Board.

William Bill Olson

WILLIAM J. “BILL” OLSON, ESQ.

William J. Olson is an attorney with the law firm of William J. Olson, P.C., which has offices in Vienna and Winchester, Virginia. He has been in the private practice of law in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area for over 46 years. His practice includes constitutional, nonprofit, health, firearms, election, FOIA, and administrative, law. Mr. Olson holds a J.D. degree from the University of Richmond, and an A.B. degree in Political Science and Economics from Brown University. He also attended the summer Institute for Comparative Legal and Economic Systems at Georgetown University.

He is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, and admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court (filing 180 briefs and other pleadings in that Court), the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th and D.C. Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, Eastern District of Virginia, Western District of Virginia, Maryland (inactive), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. He has filed 277 amicus briefs in federal and state courts. He has been listed in Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

Mr. Olson was a Congressional Intern during college and White House Intern after college during the Nixon Administration, followed by positions at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and a Gubernatorial and a House Campaign. He served in the Office of President-Elect Reagan as head of the Transition Team for the Legal Services Corporation (“LSC”). He was appointed by President Reagan as a member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the national LSC. He also served as a liaison member of the Administrative Conference of the U.S. He served on the President’s Export Council’s Subcommittee on Export Administration focusing on export of dual use technology to the Soviet Union. He served for three years as Special Counsel (for Labor and Employee Relations) to the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service. He has served as Chairman of the Fairfax County (Virginia) Republican Party, and a member of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia.

Since its founding in 1993, Mr. Olson has served as legal co-counsel of the Free Speech Coalition, defending the speech, advocacy, and associational rights of nonprofit organizations against excessive government regulation. He has served as legal co-counsel to the Free Speech Defense and Education Fund since its formation in 1995. He is General Counsel to Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund since it was founded in 1982. He was a founding director and officer of Victims Assistance Legal Organization (VALOR) since 1979. He also serves as outside legal counsel to Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation, and America’s Future.

He is the author of legal and public policy studies published by entities such as the American Enterprise Institute, CATO Institute, Crew & Kleindorfer, Gun Owners Foundation, and articles in publications such as The Federalist Society Journal, American Thinker, Western Journal and USA Today. He has testified before Committees of the U.S. House and Senate, the Federal Election Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service on a variety of occasions. He has also been a guest on radio and television shows such as the Jim Lehrer Newshour, the Larry King Show, the Art Bell Show, CNN’s Crossfire, Fox’s O’Reilly Factor, NET’s Endangered Liberties, Conservative Roundtable, and the Glenn Beck Television Show.
Mr. Olson lives in Frederick County, Virginia with his wife Janet, who was former Executive Director of the U.S. House of Representatives Republican Conference. The Olsons have two grown children and six grandchildren.

Lynz Piper-Loomis

LYNZ PIPER-LOOMIS

My Life History An Encounter that Changed My Life

A key event in my life occurred 27 years ago at the age of twelve, September 19, 1994. I call it “my alive day.” My mother and I were returning from a 4H meeting and our car was hit by another car directly on the driver’s side, killing my mother and me instantly. But God saved my life and brought me back.

I was trafficked through Child Protective Services at 13, was sexually assaulted and enslaved for three and a half years, and escaped to freedom at 16 and a half years old.

At the age of 25, I needed to make a decision about the burden, pain, and agony I was carrying from the loss of my mom and other life events. The only person affected was me, and I was the only person who could do something about it. People are responsible for their own hearts, and I am responsible for my heart. I had to ask myself, “Do I want to walk around as a victim or do I want to overcome?“

God taught me to answer the question, “What do you want to do with your circumstances? Are you going to allow them to define you?” It was then that I realized I could move forward to the plan God had for my life. I am happy to say, that plan included my husband of almost 17 years.

Now it is time for me to give back to America for all it has given me. I am ready to serve the great people of this state and this nation.

TARA LEE RODAS

Tara Rodas has been a public servant for more than 20 years, 17 of which have been dedicated to serving the Federal Inspector General (IG) community.

In 2021, Tara answered the humanitarian call from OPM to support the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) urgent efforts to care for and place migrant children entering the US via the southern border with sponsors in the US.

While serving on detail with HHS’ Unaccompanied Children (UC) Program, she discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in home country, smuggled to the U.S. border, and ends when HHS delivers a child to a sponsor – some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations.

On April 26, 2023, she testified at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing and said, “Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children.”

Tara is now known as the HHS Whistleblower who exposed government-sponsored, taxpayer-funded child trafficking.