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Home » Events » ‘Running for Justice’: Boston Marathoner Launches Virtual Race for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives
Jordan Marie Daniel gained recognition in the running community when she ran the 2019 Boston Marathon with a red handprint over her mouth to symbolize Indigenous women silenced by violence. On May 5, you can join her in a virtual run to further raise awareness of this epidemic.
In addition to the iconic handprint, though, Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel also ran the Boston Marathon with the letters “MMIW” painted on her leg. This drew awareness to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.
JMUâs Diversity Education Empowerment Program (DEEP) Impact hosted its final event of the semester, âDialogue on Indigenous People in the U.S,â April 14. The event featured guest speaker Jordan Daniel, an activist for Indigenous people, was hosted by Rebeca Barge, associate director for the Center for Multicultural Student Services and was moderated by DEEP Impactâs student staff.
The student staff included senior diversity educators, psychology major Tashana Jackson, communication studies major Chrissy Donald, integrated science and technology major Joshua Jones, political science major Mikayla Dukes, education major Samantha Hinton, health sciences major Jasmine Robinson, communication studies major Zenobia Lee-Nelson and education graduate student Cierra Ballinger.Â
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During the NCAA recruiting process, runners typically discuss things like training expectations, academic majors, and team dynamics with a prospective college coach. But Rosalie Fish, who currently runs for Iowa Central Community College, was looking for a different kind of support; the Cowlitz Tribal member wanted to know if she could count on her coach to be an ally.
Since her senior year of high school, the 20-year-old from Auburn, Washington, has dedicated her championship performances to missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) a crisis in which Indigenous women on some reservations are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the national average,
Meet the Women Creating a More Egalitarian Future in Running Five individuals, duos, and groups of women spanning the globe fighting for a new era in running defined by equality, belonging, and empowerment. Molly Hanson March 17th, 2021
To say that women have historically fought an uphill battle for equal opportunity and recognition in the world of running is an understatement. It wasn’t until 1960 that women runners were allowed to race further than 200 meters. That year, the 800 meters was reintroduced, after being scratched for 32 years following its inclusion in the 1928 Olympic schedule, where the women runners were deemed too taxed from the effort.