American novelist, lecturer, and activist named Timothy Ballard.

He founded the anti-sex trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) and served as its first CEO.

Ballard’s writing served as the basis for the 2023 American action movie Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel.

California was Ballard’s home state. He performed a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chile.

He continued his education at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and political science.

He later graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Arts in international politics from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, which is now a part of Middlebury College.

Ballard’s professional career began with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and subsequently.

He has claimed that his group saved thousands of victims of human trafficking.

In October 2017, he briefed Ivanka Trump, the president’s special advisor, on the topic of child sex trafficking.

Did LDS Church denounce Tim Ballard?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints denounced Ballard’s “morally unacceptable” behavior last week, accusing him of using his association with senior apostle M. Russell Ballard to further OUR and Tim’s business endeavors.