Wyoming Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women Epidemic

“So what was being looked at in Indian country was that these mostly young women and girls were disappearing from their community for a period of time and sometimes turning up deceased with no known explanation.” -Cara Chambers

The Wyoming Division of Victims of Crime

“Speaking as one voice for victims of crime.”

The mission of DVS is to cultivate social change and access to victim services through the provision of resources, education, and program support and development. In 2019 Governor Mark Gordon created the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force. Since its inception, the Task Force has commissioned a State-wide report into the MMIP epidemic in Wyoming, releasing its first report in January of 2021.

Cara Chambers

Director of the Division of Victim Services in the Wyoming Attorney General’s office, Chambers oversees victims’ services for the state and spearheads both the Human Trafficking Task Force and the Wyoming Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force. Along with being instrumental in getting human trafficking legislation passed in 2013 she also led the initiative to publish the first statewide comprehensive report related to missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Dr. Emily Grant

Emily has extensive experience working at state, community, and tribal levels to address topics such as human trafficking, missing and murdered indigenous persons, mental health, substance abuse, and veteran issues. Her expertise in research design and methodology include community-based participatory research, qualitative data collection and analysis, program evaluation, survey development, and quantitative data collection and analysis.

Links:

MMIP Wyoming Statewide Report

"Who She Is" Film

Wyoming DVS

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