PBS Utah Insight Video Into MMIW+

PBS Utah Insight Video Into MMIW+

Utah Insight reports on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women epidemic in Utah. Michelle Brown, Angela Romero, and Denae Shanidiin round table and discuss how data could be improved and what needs to change to keep Utah’s Native women safe.

Watch the episode on PBS Utah Season 3 Episode 4 | 27 minutes

May 5th, 2021 MMIW+ Utah Day of Remembrance

May 5th, 2021 MMIW+ Utah Day of Remembrance

In honor Utah’s Day of Remembrance Michelle Brown facilitated a conversation between Representative Angela Romero, and Denae Shanidiin of Ancestral Winds to discuss the initiatives and work done so far for Missing and Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s. Romero is the co-chair of Utah’s Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Task Force, formed in 2019.

Read more about our event reported by the DailyUtahn, Spectrum, and Utah Tar Sands Resistance.

KRCL RadioACTive Discussion MMIW+ Activists

KRCL RadioACTive Discussion MMIW+ Activists

Tune in and learn why it’s difficult to find an Indigenous person once they go missing. Hear from Denae Shanidiin of MMIwhoismissing and Restoring Ancestral Winds, Michelle Brown of the MMIW+Utah campaign of PANDOS, and Representative Angela Romero.

Listen to the full discussion on RadioACTive. 

KUTV 2News Investigation MMIW+ Utah

KUTV 2News Investigation MMIW+ Utah

Jurisdictional loopholes, racial miscategorization, and no database for MMIW+ in Utah. Read the full story from KUTV. Pandos Michelle Brown shares her insight and Representative Angela Romero speaks on the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Task Force with state law enforcement.

January 2020 Womxn’s March Pandos and MMIW Join Collaboration

Black Lives Matter, Advocates for Criminal Justice Reform in Utah, Restoring Ancestral Winds, and other organizations marched to the Salt Lake Capital to raise awareness for MMIW. 

“Yolanda Fransisco-Nez from Restoring Ancestral Winds began with a prayer, filling the atmosphere with spiritual cadence. The first speaker was MMIW’s Michelle Brown who gave a passionate speech spotlighting violence against indigenous women, a group that is killed at 10 times the national average. Shedding light on the unfair treatment of these cases and the inconsistencies in Utah’s laws, she ends her speech by asking those with women in their lives: “Listen to her, protect her, respect her. She is our future.” Following her was the Women’s Issues Director of the Utah Prisoner Advocate NetworkBrittnee Webb, who spoke about a group she calls “The Forgotten.” These mothers, sisters and daughters are the incarcerated women in Utah’s prisons and jails. She shared harrowing stories of the treatment of these women, and urged the crowd to vote for leaders who will make changes for this group that is so often left out of the women’s rights conversation.”

Read more about the march in Slug magazine.

Utah Public Radio HB116

“The passage of HB 116 is a significant step to confronting this problem, but it is only a part of the overall work being done by groups and individuals on this issue. 

Michelle Brown is the Chairperson for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Utah, a group working under the umbrella of PANDOS, a non-profit grassroots activism organization. She describes work that supports families and educates the public about individuals who are missing or who have been murdered. “

Read the entire article for more information and comments from Representative Angela Romero.