Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA

SOCIAL MEDIA EDUCATION AND OUTREACH. There are so many families and individuals desperately seeking help with their situation! We staff a major social media presence day in and day out, which provided a public presence that reached up to a 1 million people in 2021. Actual engagement ranges from 200,000 to half a million per month. In addition, we spread education on the issues through the press and in public discussions to highlight the need for changes to policy, and to provide a groundswell of support for the movement. In 2021 this involved two dozen media interviews and talks.

STAYING SACRED. Our broader goal is to eradicate this problem so that the future generations thrive. We started a monthly program called Staying Sacred to do just that. We educate and have self-defense lessons at every meeting. Our strength lies in the fact that every single one of the staff and volunteers have been assaulted or trafficked and our passion is to be the kind of organization that we needed growing up and beyond. In 2021 we provided 4 sessions, each of which had about 20 youth in attendance -- despite the ongoing limitations of the pandemic.

DIRECT FAMILY SUPPORT. Through our outreach, we help as many families as we can that are in the midst of looking for loved ones. In 2021 we supported over a dozen families in looking for missing or murdered loved ones, including providing hands-on advocacy with law enforcement and media, supporting necessary travel and living expenses, and when necessary helping with burial costs.

SEARCH AND RESCUE. We have strong experience directly supporting search and rescue operations for loved ones that the existing officials can't or won't do. We directly provided tools, funds, and/or expertise for 12 search and rescue operations in 2021.