Who is Jaco Booyens?
Jaco Booyens is a native of South Africa and an American citizen. Fighting sex trafficking is personal to Jaco. After witnessing the horrors of trafficking through his younger sister, who is now a survivor, Jaco turned abolitionist in 2001. He is a well-recognized speaker on human trafficking, Christian faith, and motivation.
20 years of experience in bringing awareness, influencing policy, and fighting this crime
Jaco has become a trusted voice in the anti-sex trafficking community. He is actively involved in legislation reform frequently supporting and consulting Senate and Congress with solutions through gap analysis to transform problematic areas relating to sex trafficking and the education of children. He weekly appears on local, national, and international Television and Radio shows including TEDX, FOX Mark Levin (Life liberty & Levin), Fox Business Lou Dobbs, Fox National and regional, CNN, MSNBC, OAN, CBS, The “Steve Harvey” Show, NEWSMAX, Real America’s Voice and many more, news articles, hundreds of Podcasts, and live streams, etc.
Jaco’s involvement in politics, media, and rescue rehabilitation non-profits to fight trafficking
Jaco actively fights trafficking in the USA and globally, giving aid and linking with agencies such as the TSA, FBI, Police departments, Sheriffs, CIA, ICE, and Homeland Security SRT, Foreign agencies, and over 172 NGOs in 56 countries around the world. Jaco is a TEDX Speaker and former advisory member to The Trump White House Anti Trafficking Council and a key advisor to several nations and organizations combatting human trafficking. His efforts include awareness & prevention, training, consulting leadership, rescue, and rehabilitation facilitation through his nonprofit organizations.
Jaco is actively involved in legislation reform frequently supporting and consulting Senate and Congress with solutions through gap analysis to transform problematic areas relating to sex trafficking and education of children. Jaco is actively engaged in the fight to combat trafficking across the U.S. border. Jaco is a world-renowned international speaker and presenter on several humanitarian issues as well as serving on the non-profit boards of Jaco Booyens Ministries, Traffick911, SHAREtogether, Face Forward and Life without Limbs.
More on Jaco’s Background
Jaco is a diversified entrepreneur and is involved in several entities and industries. He has a vast entertainment background with over twenty-five years of experience stretching across continents and cultures within the industry-leading him to start After Eden Pictures (a film production studio) where he serves as Founder and CEO. Jaco has served as the Executive Director at the internationally recognized family agency, Advantage Models & Talent that has worked with and developed such acts as Miley Cyrus, Chris Young, and other actors and artists in major television and film productions. Jaco previously served for 10 years as the international presenter, talent scout, and coach for the 30-year-old talent incubator company called AMTC. He has developed and managed athletes, artists, writers, and musicians with placement in The Voice, American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and more. Jaco is currently the host of the TV Show “The Bottom Line” which he developed to conduct discussions with deep intellectual thought leaders and subject experts, on critical societal issues of our day and answers thereto.
After Jaco’s sister became a survivor - he woke up to the reality of human trafficking and produced/directed the feature film 8 DAYS, which his wife wrote as a non-profit film, inspired by actual events of sex trafficking within the United States. Jaco launched red carpet events to screen the film, bring awareness and donate proceeds to local anti-trafficking organizations within the USA, South Africa, Europe, the Dominican Republic, and 56 countries worldwide.
Jaco is a Co-Founder and BOD member of Eden Green Technology with the mission to feed the world and eradicate food deserts in the USA and abroad through this revolutionary award-winning vertical farming technology. Jaco is the Co-Founder of RESTŌR Coffee Company giving its proceeds to place Trafficking Survivors in long term healing centers, Co-Founder of FreeSpace Social, a social media platform for all to express personal faith, beliefs, and views freely, Co-Founder of REVVL Life with world-known Dr. Pete Sulak, delivering a supplement line named RESTORE to truly teach people how to restore health with adaptogens and natural herbs and Co-owner and advisor to the revolutionary technology company SKYLAB Tech Republic.
Jaco has an educational background in Sports Medicine and had a professional sports career in both South African Rugby and Canadian and American football. Jaco’s mission is to stand for faith, family, and freedom promoting life by transforming culture through uplifting entertainment. Believing many of society’s problems disappear when a moral culture is restored, women are liberated, and the image of strong engaged fathers and men are restored.