Child Advocate Roo Powell
Child advocate and award winning writer Roo Powell is going undercover to protect our children. In this interview, Roo discusses what she is doing to keep kids safe in the dangerous online world.
Child Advocate Roo Powell is currently featured on Discovery+'s docuseries Undercover Underage as a mother posing as a child to identify pedophiles online and prevent further child sex abuse online.
Child advocate and award winning writer Roo Powell is going undercover to protect our children. In this interview, Roo discusses what she is doing to keep kids safe in the dangerous online world.
By Shannon Raphael Nov. 15 2021, Published 3:00 p.m. ET After Roo Powell spent a week posing as an 11-year-old girl on the internet, she wrote about the experience in a 2019 essay for Medium . The piece went viral, and she realized that she wanted to focus her full attention on child advocacy work.
"I still maintain that when I have to have these really awful conversations, or when I have to be subjected to some pretty terrible stuff, that it's still better me than a kid," Roo Powell told MovieMaker.
Undercover Underage, a new docuseries from discovery+, follows 38-year-old mom of three Roo Powell as she dons disguises to take down dangerous predators. With help from her team at SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse), Powell uses wigs, colored contacts, and fake braces to physically transform into a 15-year-old girl and catch online predators looking to groom young girls.
Roo Powell is going all-in undercover to protect children from online predators in Undercover Underage, a new series premiering Tuesday, Nov. 2 on discovery+. Powell, a 38-year-old child advocate who founded SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse), opened up to PopCulture.com about the work her [...]
Hi, I'm Roo. In 2010, I started working for myself, launching successful websites and writing for outlets of note, including advertising publication Adweek. I've written copy for brands all over - from Boulder to Brooklyn to Boston - and my words appear on products in Whole Foods, Target, Nordstrom, Barnes & Noble, Kroger, Stop & Shop, and various other stores.