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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Sam's Town Hotel & Casino, Shreveport
We are pleased to announce that our 2025 guest speaker will be Jessica Buchanan - kidnapping survivor, humanitarian, and New York Times Bestselling Author. Jessica's incredible story of survival against unimaginable odds is a powerful testament to courage and resiliency - themes that deeply resonate with the expreienve of the over 900 children and teens who walk through our doors each year. On October 25, 2011, while on a routine field mission in Somalia, working as the Education Advisor for her non-governmental organization, Jessica was abducted at gunpoint and held for ransom by a group of Somali pirates for 93 days. Forced to live outdoors in deplorable conditions, starved, and terrorized by more than two dozen gangsters, Jessica’s health steadily deteriorated until, by order of President Obama, she was rescued by the elite SEAL Team VI on January 25, 2012. Jessica’s ordeal is detailed in her New York Times bestselling book, Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six.
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