Lena Walther
Co-Founder & President · Honorary Consul of Sweden in Nevada
Cross-border trafficking prevention, Nordic–Nevada collaboration and law enforcement coalitions.
Sentinel Circle · Leadership giving
Gated communities have guardhouses. Smartphones do not.
Predators research affluent families, clone voices and reach children through the phone in their bedroom. The Sentinel Circle unites 40 founding Southern Nevada households to fund school prevention, with private briefings for their own families.
2026–2027 founding cohort: 40 of 40 household seats open
Why it exists
Prevention for the community, protection for your family
Funds school prevention
Your gift pays for AIP’s training in Southern Nevada schools and for parents, where most exploitation can be stopped before it starts.
Briefs your household
Patrons get the same plain-language threat briefings AIP gives educators, plus advisories when a new scam or app surfaces locally.
Gives clearly
AIP is a 501(c)(3) (EIN 46-4863325). Your acknowledgment states any value received, so the deductible amount is never a surprise.
Illustration · synthetic scenario
How an AI-enabled exploit can unfold in four minutes
This walk-through describes common patterns, not a real incident, person or neighborhood. It shows why parental controls alone are not enough.
00:00 · Attack in progress
Public-record scraping
Automated tools can link public executive titles, private-school athletic rosters, property records and geotagged posts to flag households that look affluent and busy.
Who leads it
Statecraft, intelligence and AI security in one room
In Las Vegas, VIP entertainment is easy to buy. Off-the-record time with a consul, a retired intelligence officer and an AI security researcher is not.
Ken Walther
Co-Founder · 27 years with the Central Intelligence Agency
How predators elicit and pressure, how grooming is disrupted, and how a family prepares for coercion.
Joey Victorino
Chief Technology & AI Security Officer
Synthetic red-team briefings, deepfake and sextortion trends, and reducing a family’s online exposure.
First deliverables
What confirmed patrons receive first
Both are being prepared with the founding cohort. Below is the planned scope. Patrons receive them by email once their seat is confirmed.
Planned contents · in preparation
A household checklist built for the first two days
- iPhone and Android Screen Time: closing the common bypasses
- Discord, Roblox and game-console safety settings
- Mobile carrier SIM-swap and number-port freeze
- Removing the household from data-broker sites
- A family no-blame safe-word plan
Four levels
Choose your level
Each level includes everything in the one before it. Gifts by donor-advised fund, family office, wire and card are all welcome.
Open enrollment
Advocate
$1,500 a year
or $125 a month · open enrollment
For households that want the protocol, the advisories and the briefings.
- The First-48 Household Lockout Protocol when your gift is confirmed
- Sentinel Flash Wire advisories by email, or text if you opt in
- Two virtual AI and cyber threat briefings a year with Joey Victorino
- Invitation for two to the annual autumn consular reception
- Twice-yearly impact report and optional listing in the leadership registry
Founding charter
Envoy
$5,000 a year
26 of 26 founding seats open
Everything in Advocate, plus a seat in the room.
- Priority invitation for two to twice-yearly 20-person salons in private Henderson and Summerlin homes with Lena, Ken and Joey, held under the Chatham House Rule
- Annual live briefing: how an AI-enabled exploit is built, shown with synthetic data
- One guest-couple pass for the annual consular reception
- Early previews of AIP educator curricula and defensive tools
Recommended
Consul’s Circle
$10,000 a year
10 of 10 founding seats open
Everything in Envoy, plus a briefing built around your household or firm.
- One private 60-minute exposure and AI threat briefing for up to 25 family members or executives, led by AIP leadership
- Invitation for two to the annual 14-seat Consul’s Table dinner hosted by Lena and Ken Walther with Joey Victorino
- Named as School Prevention Underwriter for a Southern Nevada school deployment, with an impact brief afterward
Founding charter
Vanguard
$25,000+ a year
4 of 4 founding seats open
Everything in Consul’s Circle, plus a hand in AIP’s strategy.
- A seat at the annual eight-patron crisis tabletop exercise with Ken Walther and Joey Victorino, built around an AI-enabled extortion scenario
- Twice-yearly strategy sessions with Lena, Ken and Joey on AIP’s defensive AI roadmap and Nevada legislative priorities
- Lead underwriter recognition on statewide threat reports, AI safety tools or law enforcement training cohorts
Giving through a donor-advised fund, family office or executive assistant? .
Ways to give
Give once, give monthly, or lead
Every level funds the same prevention work. Choose the one that fits your household. AIP Angels who give $125 a month or more become Sentinel Circle Advocates.
- 1 · Give once
One-time gift
Any amount
Pays for school and parent presentations, community seminars and survivor-support partnerships.
Give now - 2 · Give monthly
AIP Angels
Any monthly amount
Steady monthly support lets AIP say yes the day a school or organization asks for training.
Become an AIP Angel - 3 · Lead
Sentinel Circle
From $125 a month or $1,500 a year
Leadership giving for Southern Nevada households and firms, with private briefings from AIP leadership.
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How salons work
Private, pitch-free and off the record
No ballroom
Salons are held in vetted private homes across MacDonald Highlands, Ascaya, Seven Hills and Summerlin, hosted in kind so gifts fund prevention, not banquets.
No pitch
No auctioneer, no paddle raise and no public ranking of donors inside a salon.
Off the record
Held under the Chatham House Rule and never recorded, so law enforcement and intelligence guests can speak candidly.
Questions
What careful patrons ask
Is my gift tax-deductible?
Awareness Is Prevention is a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 46-4863325). Gifts are deductible to the extent allowed by law. Briefings and security education are prevention education. Some benefits, such as a dinner or reception seat, can have a fair market value. AIP’s written acknowledgment states any value you received so the deductible amount is clear. Please confirm your own situation with a tax adviser.
Can I give through a donor-advised fund or family office?
Yes. Choose “Donor-advised fund or office” when you request a seat. The committee confirms the seat, and you complete the gift by grant, wire or card within 14 business days. The grant instructions are written out for you to copy.
Will I meet students or survivors?
No. Patrons never observe K–12 workshops, meet minors AIP serves, or hear survivor stories as entertainment. All impact reporting is anonymized.
How is membership confirmed, and can I stay anonymous?
The AIP committee confirms each seat quietly to protect the organization. At every level you may choose full anonymity. Recognition is always opt-in.
What is delivered, and when?
AIP is building the Sentinel programs with the founding cohort. The household protocol and the Flash Wire are in preparation and reach confirmed patrons by email first. Text messages go only to patrons who opt in. Salon, dinner and tabletop dates are set with each cohort and confirmed in writing.
Is this a security service?
No. Briefings, synthetic demonstrations and hardening guides are general educational material. They are not commercial security auditing, penetration testing, legal advice or a managed security service.
Awareness Is Prevention is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 46-4863325, serving Henderson and Las Vegas, Nevada. Educational material only: not commercial security auditing, penetration testing, legal advice or a managed security service. Scenarios shown are synthetic. Questions: sentinel@aipnv.org.