5Th Annual Benefiting Operation Underground Railroad
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2018 Salt Lake City | 5th Annual Benefiting Operation Underground Railroad O.U.R. MISSION STATEMENT To shine a light worldwide on the global epidemic of child sex trafficking, and in so doing rescue more children from slavery and assist law enforcement to seek justice for those who violate children. We place survivors on a path to recovery by partnering with vetted aftercare providers. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.OURRESCUE.ORG TONIGHT’S PROGRAM Welcome Performance Keynote Master Of Ceremonies, Ali Landry John Canaan “You’re Not Alone” Tim Ballard Founder/CEO, Operation Underground Railroad Performance Live Auction Fund a Need Paul Cardall “Gracie’s Theme” Guest Speaker Special Performance Closing Jessica Mass Paul Cardall & Ballard Children Director of Aftercare, Operation Underground Railroad Ali Landry Master of Ceremonies Actress, TV Personality, Entrepreneur For Ali Landry, entering show business was a result of chance and made me reevaluate what I was currently doing.” After the movie won circumstance rather than the obvious bottom line. After all, it’s not often the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 2006, she and that a former Miss Louisiana and Miss USA enters the pageant world to her husband took time off to travel the country, promoting the film. Since garner career connections rather than the usual crowning glory. then Landry took a sprint on ABC’s “Superstars” alongside professional Olympian athletes, honing her lifestyle skills with her new children’s line, With her infectious charm and laid-back joie de vive, Landry—a small-town Belle Parish, and later that year hosting Yahoo’s ‘Spotlight to Nightlight’ girl from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana—became a household name first as the for everyday mothers craving a little celebrity know-how, she’s constantly Doritos spokeswoman and 1998 Super Bowl heartthrob, and later with her testing her creative boundaries, always one step ahead. recurring roles in “Felicity,” “Two Guys and a Girl,” “Sunset Beach,” and “Popular.” Landry’s sudden rise to fame landed her on People Magazine’s In 2011, Landry’s pregnancy with her second child, Marcelo, didn’t manage 50 Most Beautiful People in the World list in 1998 alongside Leonardo to slow her down, as she stayed busy with a role in her husband Alejandro DiCaprio and Gwyneth Paltrow. Accustomed to juggling many hats, she Monteverde’s feature film, “Little Boy.” The film, which released in 2015, also hosted the music-talk show “FarmClub.com,” NBC’s “Spy TV,” and is an adult fairy tale taking place during the time of World War II. During WE’s “Full Frontal Fashion,” which led to her first Times Square billboard, the busy pregnancies of her last two children, Marcelo and Valentin, “Fashion Wraps” on TV Guide Network and numerous other shows. Landry was named spokesperson for Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula stretch mark products. Landry and her pregnant belly were featured in ad A starring role on UPN’s “Eve,” from 2003 to 2006, enabled her to flex campaigns across America along with her children. her acting chops as Rita, a role so opposite herself she often felt liberated. It was during this time that she also met her husband, Alejandro Gomez Landry also created and executive produced her very first television show Monteverde, a writer and director who was working on Bella, a film Landry in 2011, “Hollywood Girls’ Night”. The unscripted series featured Landry later co-starred in. “I really wanted to break out of my mold with Bella,” and Alison Sweeney on the TV Guide Network. This project was based on she says. “I had never been involved in a project like this and it really a real-life mom’s club started by Landry and included some of her celeb mommy friends, including Lisa Rinna, Nancy O’Dell, Tori Spelling, Brooke crack the code to various life hurtles. It’s also a space where the mother- Burke, Candace Cameron Burke, Kyle Richards and Denise Richards. of-three will share the latest and greatest product discoveries in beauty, Landry and Sweeney executive produced with former “Oprah Winfrey wellness and parenting. The weekly show will regularly feature sit-down Show” executive producer Ellen Rakieten. interviews with various guests, like world-renowned doctors, influential experts, famous wisdom keepers, and celebrity friends in order to share In 2012, Landry co-founded the annual Red CARpet Safety Event, geared their unique ideas on topics like insomnia, hair loss, mental health, towards spreading awareness for car seat safety as well as other areas of exercise, motherhood, work-life balance, and everything in between. safety that affect parents. Landry is a certified Car Seat Safety Technician and is very passionate about education pertaining to the safety of children. With the success and continued interest in RE/SHAPE TV, Ali is ready The Red CARpet Safety Event has drawn celebrities such as Robin Thicke, to expand and create programming specific for television placement. Kyle Richards and Jaime Pressly over the years. 2018 marks Landry’s Expanding upon the foundation she has created, building content that seventh year producing and hosting the Annual Red CARpet Safety Event. resonates with women who are on the journey and are interested in learning about the very best resources, which they can integrate into their In 2017, Ali’s dream to host a daily talk show came true when she signed overall lifestyle. Ali is on a mission to learn about and test every product on as co-host of the nationally syndicated one-hour talk/variety show and wellness system to become knowledgeable about what has been “Hollywood Today Live.” The show taped live from the heart of Hollywood developed around the world that women can implement in their daily and delivered top-trending entertainment news, pop culture stories and living. engaging lifestyle segments. It also featured exclusive in-studio celebrity interviews and experts who give reviews of the very latest in fashion, food Needless to say, Landry has her plate full and says, “I am so fulfilled in and fitness. my life. I know that I am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing. I could not be happier.” In May 2018, Landry launched a new online lifestyle show, RE/SHAPE TV, where she hosts meaningful conversations aimed to help women over 40 Tim Ballard Founder & CEO of Operation Underground Railroad Tim Ballard is the Founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad Show, The Hugh Hewitt Show, as well as many local news programs. (O.U.R.). He is also the CEO of The Nazarene Fund. Ballard spent over Tim is the principal subject of two full length documentaries: The a decade working as a Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Abolitionists, by Academy Award-winning producer, Gerald Molen, and Security where he was assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Operation Toussaint, by Emmy Award-winning director, Nick Nanton. His Task Force and deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. Child Sex life story is also depicted in the upcoming feature film, Sound of Freedom, Tourism Jump Team. He has worked every type of case imaginable in the where he is portrayed by actor Jim Caviezel and his wife, Katherine, is fight to dismantle child trafficking rings. Ballard has worked undercover portrayed by Academy Award Winner, Mira Sorvino. in the United States and in multiple foreign countries to infiltrate child trafficking organizations. In this effort, he has successfully dismantled After serving a church mission to Chile, Ballard graduated Cum Laude dozens of these organizations and rescued countless children from sex with a BA in Spanish and Political Science from Brigham Young University. slavery. He is an expert at managing internet investigations, particularly He went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude with an MA in International those dealing with file-share networks where pedophiles and traffickers Politics from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. go to trade in child pornography. He has trained hundreds of law He resides in Utah with his wife and children. enforcement officers and has testified before the United States Congress on best practices to liberate children from sex slavery. Ballard has been featured on many national news outlets to discuss his efforts to combat child trafficking. He was featured in a story by ESPN with Pittsburgh Steelers Head Coach, Mike Tomlin. He also has appeared on Fox & Friends, Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, The Meredith Vieira Show, CBS Nightly News, ABC Nightline, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, The Glenn Beck Program, The Eric Metaxas Show, The Dennis Prager Jessica Mass Director of Aftercare, Operation Underground Railroad Born and raised in the Midwest, Jessica found her calling in life when she was 13 years old on a church mission trip in the inner-city of Brooklyn, New York. Following high school, she has worked for 17 years in six different states and internationally in non-profit empowering youth in foster care, areas of mental health and human trafficking. Her primary focus has been helping children and youth heal from trauma and empowering them in their hopes and dreams for the future. She also has first-hand experience being a therapeutic foster parent for children that experienced severe neglect, abuse or human trafficking. Jessica is also passionate about collaboration and has been able to train and serve on five continents. In college, she received a double major in Biblical Studies and Family Education at Multnomah University. She completed the Arts Bridge Scholar graduate level program at the University of Utah, has been trained in NLP and is certified in the Teaching Family Model.