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Taylor N. Hatch brings a dynamic record of leadership to her role as Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), where she was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis in 2025. Mrs. Hatch comes to DCF after most recently serving as the Director of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) from 2023 to 2025. While serving as Director of APD, Mrs. Hatch led the team to transformational service delivery by challenging rigid governmental infrastructures where they exist, to deliver for the people they are intended to serve. Practically, this translated to engaging critical stakeholders and partners to inform and develop key opportunities to remove unnecessary bureaucracy, enhance end-user experiences, and strategically offer the right supports at the right time. Throughout every leadership post, Mrs. Hatch challenges the status quo, driving the performance of government to be more efficient, accessible, appropriate, and impactful for those it serves.

Mrs. Hatch previously served at DCF as Deputy Secretary and as the Assistant Secretary of Economic Self-Sufficiency, driving major reforms to empower families, expand opportunity, and create clear pathways to economic independence. Before DCF, Mrs. Hatch made her mark strengthening the development of Florida’s workforce as Director of Workforce Services at the Department of Commerce and held senior roles advancing policy and operations at the Department of Management Services. Her background also includes private-sector consulting – successfully advocating and advancing priorities across a multitude of business sectors and branches of government. A proud Florida native, Mrs. Hatch and her husband Eddie enjoy life with their three children and remain deeply committed to building a brighter future for Florida families.

Kevin Malone, named “The Best General Manager in Major League Baseball” in 1995, retired from professional baseball in 2001 after an illustrious 17-year career in which his teams earned a World Championship and several trips to the post-season. MLB Hall of Fame General Manager Pat Gillick stated the following about Kevin, he’s an experienced winner whose leadership, team building skills, and management expertise helped him in restoring three different MLB franchises to prominence.

In May 2025, Malone was appointed by the President Trump administration to be the Health and Human Services (Administration for Children and Families) Senior Advisor on Human Trafficking. Malone for the past eleven years through his nonprofits used his talents, experiences and relationships to fight for the eradication of child sex slavery.

Kevin was the Founder/former Executive Director of Protect The P.A.T.H. (People Against Trafficking Humans), the Co-Founder/former CEO of the United States Institute Against Human Trafficking www.USIAHT.org and the Founder/former CEO of www.kidsNOTforSale.org These nonprofits are now being led by survivor/thriver Oree Freeman, and are dedicated and committed to ending the sex slavery of minors in America.

President Donald J. Trump appointed Kevin in October 2019 to his non-partisan Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking in the United States. Malone was hired in 2022 by the National Football League (NFL) and the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission to lead all Super Bowl LVI efforts to disrupt human trafficking operations and assist with victim services.

In 1996, Kevin was named the Assistant General Manager of the Baltimore Orioles and helped assemble a club that advanced to the American League Championships in both 1996 and 1997. Kevin retired in 2001 from Major League Baseball after three years as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. After retiring Kevin worked for Fox Sports (Baseball Analyst) and ESPN’s Baseball Tonight (Trade Analyst). Kevin in 2005 began a start-up business venture as an owner of the new Mercedes-Benz of Valencia.

Ashlee Lucas is recognized for advancing victim-centered, trauma-informed, and collaborative
responses to human trafficking. She currently serves as an Anti-Trafficking Specialist at The
Tebow Group, supporting the Tim Tebow Foundation’s mission to protect and serve vulnerable populations around the world.
Previously, Ashlee served as Mississippi’s Statewide Human Trafficking Coordinator with theMississippi Bureau of Investigation, where she secured federal funding to establish the state’s Human Trafficking Special Victims Unit and chaired the Mississippi Human Trafficking Council.
Between her statewide leadership roles, she served as a Human Trafficking Intelligence Analyst with the Mississippi Analysis and Information Center (MSAIC), specializing in intelligence gathering, threat assessments, and case support related to trafficking, child exploitation, and organized criminal networks.
Ashlee began her anti-trafficking career with the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, where
she administered the Mississippi Governor’s Task Force on Human Trafficking and helped build
the early infrastructure for statewide collaboration, training, and victim services

Jodi serves as the Chief Operating Officer for One More Child. Since joining One More Child in 2014, Jodi has played a pivotal role in launching One More Child’s Anti-Trafficking program to include the opening of one of the first certified safe homes in the state of Florida for minor domestic females and the establishment of OMC’s multi-disciplinary mobile teams. Under Jodi’s leadership, One More Child’s Anti-Trafficking services and expertise have impacted human trafficking survivors throughout the state of Florida, and have expanded to Tennessee, North Carolina, and Ohio. Jodi’s expertise has been sought on a local and national level in the areas of public policy, child safety, community collaboration, trauma competency, and self-care. In addition to the work she has done in our Anti-Trafficking program, Jodi has also held in key leadership roles in One More Child’s Foster Care program and as the Executive Director of the Single Moms program where she oversaw five residential campus locations, and was integral in launching One More Child’s Single Moms Community Program which allows us to bring aid to single moms throughout the U.S. and internationally, helping them to break the cycles of poverty. She began her career at the Department of Children and Families where she worked on the state of Florida’s first specialized unit investigating human trafficking cases and became a certified human trafficking specialist. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and criminology and a master’s degree in criminology from Florida State University.

Brad is the lead pastor at Petal First Baptist Church in Mississippi where he served for the past 13 years. He‘s been married to his wife Rebecca for 23 years and they have 3 children, William, Matthew and Emma. He has been in ministry for over 35 years serving churches in Texas, Alabama, Louisiana & Mississippi. He served as the head of the Mississippi Sex Abuse Response Team as well as a member of the (ARITF) Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force for the Southern Baptist Convention. He is deeply passionate about helping those who have suffered from abuse, especially inside the church. He is also equally passionate about helping the church understand the clear gospel call for prevention and response. He is a survivor of childhood clergy sex abuse & his story is one of God’s miraculous hope, healing, and redemption that only God could bring about

Olivia is a passionate anti-trafficking advocate and leader working in the non-profit direct-care sector who is skilled in leading community workshops on topics such as human trafficking, exploitation, and trauma-informed care. She has experience advocating at the Florida State Capitol and Washington, D.C. for legislation that protects children and survivors and has a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics with a focus on Psychology from Georgetown University. She serves as the Anti-Trafficking Team Supervisor at One More Child and was named last year’s Survivor Advocate of the Year by Florida’s Statewide Council on Human Trafficking.

Julie Lowe is a former faculty member at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF). She holds an MA in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary. She is a licensed professional counselor with over twenty-two years of counseling experience. She has extensive experience with marriage, women’s issues, sexual abuse, body image issues, parenting, and child maltreatment issues, and regularly speaks on these topics. Julie is a registered play therapist and has developed a play therapy office and resources to serve families and youth. She is trained in leading mandated reporter trainings and provides numerous trainings on child sexual abuse. Julie has a registered therapy dog that she works with both professionally and on a volunteer basis.

She has authored several books: Childproof: Parenting By Faith Not Formula,  Building Bridges: Biblical Counseling Activities for Children and Teens, Helping Your Anxious Child: What to Do When Your Worries are Big, and Teens and Suicide: Recognizing the Signs and Sharing the Hope.