During this one-hour webinar, Dr. Charlene Aqpik Apok — executive director and co-founder of Data for Indigenous Justice — will share the organization’s work to gather, steward, and decolonize data.
Decolonizing data is essential for social justice advocacy, especially when it comes to missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited people. Local, state and federal agencies including law enforcement have inconsistent methods in which data is gathered. This lack of accountability from agencies creates limited reporting and data sharing. There are incredible gaps in basic demographic information that have led to barriers in having accurate representation of the MMIWG2S crisis. Data for Indigenous Justice uses multi-level strategies to address this issue. DIJ continually tracks and stewards MMIWG2S data in Alaska. The second strategy is advocating for systems level change. The third is having a healing centered approach to community engagement.

This webinar is supported by the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center.

Register here: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HG6lVF1QQ2Sf4efVj9WM6Q