Alicia Kozakiewicz is an acclaimed speaker and internet safety expert turning lived experience into practical tools for protection and change.
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At 13, Alicia Kozakiewicz was groomed online, abducted and held captive by an internet predator before being rescued by the FBI. She turned that experience into a mission to protect others and is now an internationally acclaimed speaker, internet safety expert and advocate. With more than two decades of experience and a master’s degree in forensic psychology, Alicia combines powerful storytelling with practical insights into online grooming, exploitation, trauma and resilience.
Alicia Kozakiewicz brings a perspective to the stage shaped by an extraordinary personal experience and more than two decades of professional advocacy. At 13, Alicia became the survivor of the first known internet-related child abduction. She was groomed online, lured from her home and held captive by an internet predator before being rescued by the FBI.
Rather than allowing that experience to define the limits of her future, Alicia transformed it into a lifelong mission to protect children, prevent exploitation and stop predatory crime. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed speaker, internet safety expert, victim and missing persons advocate, author and podcast host.
Her keynotes combine vulnerability, strength and direct storytelling. Alicia helps audiences understand the human realities behind predatory and technology-facilitated crime while showing how knowledge, awareness and informed action can make a tangible difference.
For more than two decades, Alicia Kozakiewicz has pioneered internet safety education in schools and contributed to the national conversation surrounding online grooming, child exploitation and evolving digital dangers.
Her work addresses issues that increasingly affect families, schools, workplaces, communities and organizations. Drawing on lived experience, extensive advocacy and a master’s degree in forensic psychology, Alicia explores subjects including online grooming, predatory behavior, sextortion, image-based abuse, human trafficking, cyberbullying, AI-enabled harms, trauma responses and resilience.
When you book speaker Alicia Kozakiewicz, audiences gain practical knowledge they can apply beyond the event. Her presentations help people:
Alicia has presented to law enforcement, government agencies, schools, corporations, medical professionals, cybersecurity experts, parents and community organizations. Her audiences have included JPMorgan Chase, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, Caterpillar, RSA, ANZ Bank, the Australian Information Security Association, Kimberly-Clark and Fannie Mae, among others.
Alicia’s work reaches far beyond the speaking stage. She is the namesake of Alicia’s Law, bipartisan legislation providing dedicated funding to Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces. Enacted in more than a dozen states, Alicia’s Law gives law enforcement resources to identify offenders, investigate technology-facilitated crimes against children and rescue victims.
She has also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of stronger protections for children, bringing survivor-informed expertise directly into conversations about legislation and public policy.
This combination of personal experience, academic knowledge and sustained advocacy gives Alicia a distinctive ability to connect individual stories with broader questions about safety, responsibility and prevention. She speaks about difficult subjects with clarity and purpose, helping audiences understand both the seriousness of the challenges and the possibilities for meaningful intervention.
Alicia is the author of The Internet Safety Guidebook: Protecting Kids in the Digital Age, extending her educational work to families and others navigating an increasingly complex online environment.
She also hosts The Alicia Kozak Podcast, an iHeartRadio show that goes beyond true crime to reveal the hidden side of real crime. Through candid conversations with law enforcement, forensic experts, analysts, survivors and other frontline professionals, Alicia highlights the people confronting crimes against children and working every day to protect vulnerable individuals.
Her story and advocacy have received extensive national and international media attention. Alicia has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, CNN, MSNBC, Investigation Discovery and the BBC, among many other programs. She has also been featured in international publications including People and Cosmopolitan.
A keynote from Alicia Kozakiewicz gives audiences more than awareness of internet safety and predatory crime. She creates an emotional and educational experience grounded in survival, expertise and a clear commitment to change.
Her extraordinary story demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit and the possibility of transforming profound adversity into meaningful action. At the same time, Alicia never loses sight of the practical questions facing her audiences: How can we recognize threats? How should we respond? How can we better protect children and vulnerable people as technology continues to evolve?
Whether addressing professionals in law enforcement and cybersecurity, corporate audiences, educators, medical professionals, parents or community organizations, Alicia adapts complex and sensitive topics into compelling insights audiences can understand and use.
Book speaker Alicia Kozakiewicz for an event that combines an unforgettable personal story with practical internet safety expertise, survivor-informed education and a powerful message of resilience, responsibility and hope.
Keynote Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz:
As the first known survivor of internet-facilitated child abduction, Alicia Kozak has spent more than 20 years on the front lines of internet safety education, shaping the national conversation around online danger before most people knew it existed.
Drawing from her own story of survival, she walks audiences through how predators identify, target, and manipulate victims online and what the current digital landscape means for employees, families, and organizations today.
Audiences leave with a deeper understanding of online threat tactics and the tools to recognize and respond to them.
Keynote Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz:
Technology has transformed how predators, scammers, and bad actors operate, and today's threats are more sophisticated, easier to execute, and more pervasive than ever.
Alicia Kozak breaks down the real- world human impact of AI, deepfakes, phishing, sextortion, and social engineering.
As the survivor of the first known internet-facilitated child abduction, with more than 20 years of experience educating audiences about the evolving digital threat landscape, she brings a perspective that is both deeply personal and practically actionable.
Audiences walk away knowing exactly what to look for, how these tactics work, and what steps they can take to protect themselves, their families, and their organizations.
Keynote Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz:
Online threats do not stop at the front door. They are happening to employees, their children, their parents, and their partners, often without anyone realizing until it is too late. Whether the target is a child, a family, or an entire organization, the tactics are the same: find a vulnerability and exploit it.
Alicia Kozak examines how romance scams, human trafficking, sextortion, and social engineering all operate from the same playbook, and what that means for the people and organizations trying to defend against them.
As the first known survivor of an internet-facilitated child abduction with more than 20 years of experience educating audiences about digital threats, she connects the dots between the decisions people make every day and the real impact on the people and organizations they care about.
Audiences leave with the context, awareness, and practical tools to recognize threats before they cause real harm.
Keynote Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz:
Real change does not come from awareness alone, and it is what fuels Alicia's mission.
As the survivor at the center of a landmark internet-facilitated child abduction, Alicia Kozak began sharing her story at 14 not only to take her power back, but to change the way families, schools, the public, and lawmakers understood online danger.
Over the next two decades, she became a leading voice in child safety, visiting schools across the country, educating the public through media and live events, and helping shape the national conversation about grooming, exploitation, and prevention.
Her advocacy led to the passage of Alicia's Law, bipartisan legislation now passed in more than a dozen states to fund the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces.
In this talk, Alicia pulls back the curtain on what advocacy and activism mean, what it takes to move legislation, and how technology is now being used not only to cause harm, but as a tool for good actors to find offenders, rescue children, and pursue justice.
Audiences leave with a concrete understanding of how real, lasting change in child safety happens and how their voices can be part of it.
Keynote Alicia “Kozak” Kozakiewicz:
Alicia Kozak, founder of The Alicia Project, pioneered Internet Safety Education more than 20 years ago, bringing online safety into schools nationwide and shaping the way students learn to protect themselves in the digital age.
She is the first widely known case of a child abducted by an online predator. Through personal testimony, she shares her story of Internet abduction, captivity, and survival. Ageappropriate, but never sugar coated, her interactive presentations educate and empower students to make responsible and safe choices online and off.
Alicia discusses how to safely use computers, mobile devices, social media, gaming systems,
and apps. She also covers topics such as, online predators, grooming, the growing threat of Al, sextortion, cyberbullying, "sexting," sexual assault, child exploitation, and human-trafficking.
Alicia also walks the students through her own recovery process, and through this, shares the importance of having self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence as life skills
Alicia brings a rare ability to address these sensitive subjects in a way that is informative, inspirational, and, at times, humorous.
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