Webinar | Patricia Michaels: Bringing Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives

Bringing Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives: a conversation with Patricia Michaels

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Fashion designer Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) uses art and creativity to draw attention to this crisis. Michaels will talk about multivocal advocacy about MMIWR, expressed through her iconic fashion designs and her use of artmaking to help heal trauma.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) epidemic is an issue affecting Tribal communities and people across North America. Native American, Alaska Native, and First Nations women, girls, and Two Spirit individuals face higher rates of violence, rape, trafficking, and murder than national averages in the US and Canada. Indigenous families, communities, and grassroots organizations have been advocating for decades for more action to find the missing and trafficked, and for accountability against perpetrators.

This presentation is sponsored by UVA’s Native and Indigenous Relations Community (NIRC) and the Dean’s Fund for the Democracy Initiative.