# Event Details - **Event Name**: MMIWGT2S NYC+ EAST COAST SUMMIT - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us for our 4th annual MMIWGT2S NYC+ East Coast Summit!About this EventThe Fourth Annual MMIWGT2S NYC+ East Coast Summit, hosted by the Urban Indigenous Collective in collaboration with the UIC MMIP Task Force, is a community-led, Indigenous-governed convening at the intersection of remembrance, advocacy, healing, and cultural expression. Rooted in the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans, and Two-Spirit relatives, the summit was created to address critical gaps in data, visibility, and coordinated response across New York City and the broader East Coast region.This work builds on over six years of community-led organizing, research, and advocacy by the Urban Indigenous Collective and the leadership of the UIC MMIP Task Force—advancing data justice efforts, policy change, and community-based responses to gender-based violence, while working to close the systemic gaps that continue to leave Indigenous relatives unseen and unprotected.Over the past three years, the summit has grown into a vital East Coast gathering, bringing together survivors, families, Indigenous leaders, researchers, service providers, policymakers, and community members to engage in collective truth-telling, community education, and systems advocacy. Programming includes panels, teach-ins, strategy sessions, and artistic activations that honor our relatives and hold space for both grief and resilience.Through creative expression, storytelling, and cultural work, the summit honors our relatives and carries forward collective memory. The summit also includes ceremonial and community-based practices, including a public vigil and prayer walk, grounding the gathering in collective remembrance and community presence. The week of programming is anchored by May 5th, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives, a day that honors victims such as Hanna Harris and calls for increased visibility, accountability, and systemic change.Guided by Indigenous values of kinship, accountability, and the Seventh Generation principle, the summit uplifts community-driven solutions, advances policy and data justice efforts, and strengthens culturally grounded pathways for healing and support. MMIWGT2S NYC+ East Coast Summit, represents a growing regional movement, one that ensures our relatives are seen, remembered, and protected across all of our communities.The Peoples Forum🕑: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AMRegistration, Coffee + Breakfast🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AMUIC Welcome + Prayer Song 🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AMTask Force Address🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PMKeynote Address with Kali "KO" ReisHost: Kali "KO" Reis (Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe)Info: The Keynote Speaker Address will take place at the People's Forum (320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018). This year we have the honor of having Kali "KO" Reis as our MMIWGT2S NYC+ Summit Keynote Speaker. Kali “KO” Mequinonoag Reis (Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe) is the first Indigenous Woman World Champion boxer, holding six World Titles in two weight classes. She leverages her platform to advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Her advocacy work includes starring in and receiving a writer’s credit for the film Catch the Fair One, which highlights the MMIW epidemic and earned her an Indie Film Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead Actress.🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PMLunch Break🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PMHolding Our Relatives: Clinicians Supporting Survivors of MMIWGT2SHost: Marianne Almero (Urban Indigenous Collective)Info: This panel will be held at will be held at The People's Forum (320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018) As part of the launch of UIC's Urban Indigenous Wellness Program, this panel session features trauma-informed, decolonial/indigenized mental wellness practitioners and survivor advocates who will share their experiences supporting MMIWGT2S+ survivors and family members. Moderated by UIC's Community Wellness Specialist Marianne Almero, featuring panelists Dr. Ebony BrushBreaker and Teresa Mateus, this discussion will cover how survivor testimonies are honored in their work, and the essential role practitioners play in actively pushing back against the systemic indifference and apathy surrounding the MMIWGT2S+ crisis. The panel will conclude with a Q&A to foster an exchange of knowledge, deepen the understanding of the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual complexities of the crisis, and explore actionable strategies to combat it.🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PMMindful Transition🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:15 PMWhen Women Govern, We Protect: Indigenous Leadership in the MMIW ResponseHost: Sutton King (Urban Indigenous Collective)Info: This panel will take place at The People's Forum (320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018). This panel brings together Indigenous women leaders across tribal governance, public policy, and community-based leadership to explore how Indigenous-led approaches are shaping responses to the MMIWGT2S crisis. Panelists will share how leadership grounded in kinship, accountability, and sovereignty informs strategies for prevention, protection, and justice. The conversation will highlight the critical role of Indigenous women in advancing policy change, strengthening community response systems, and protecting our relatives.🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:30 PMMindful Transition🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:15 PMReclaiming the Body as Sacred TerritoryHost: Letia Perry ( Diné (Navajo)Info: This workshop will be taking place at Urban Indigenous Collective's Community Center (315 West 39th Street, Suite 1206, New York, NY 10018) Hosted by Letia Perry, this workshop is a culturally grounded, trauma informed healing space rooted in Diné Navajo medicine and lived Indigenous experience, centering the body as sacred territory impacted by colonial and gender based violence. Through guided embodiment, breath, and somatic practices, participants reconnect with their bodies as sources of wisdom, sovereignty, and protection while restoring safety, intuition, and resilience. The space is consent based, non extractive, and invites participants to engage at their own pace.🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:15 PMArt as Advocacy: Carrying Their Names Through CreationHost: Vanessa Ayala (ArtbyAyala)Info: Join a fireside conversation with Vanessa Ayala, a New York–based painter of Quechua and Aymara descent, whose work reimagines traditional portraiture as an act of transcendence. Blending vibrant oil and airbrush, she creates ethereal figures that honor oral traditions and ancestral memory, with work exhibited nationally, including her museum debut at the Delaware Art Museum. The conversation will center her featured piece, Liberación | Liberation (2025), a large-scale painting honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit relatives, which was generously donated in support of the Opeqtawmetaemoh (Flying Eagle Woman) Survivors Fund. Facilitated by Delilah Ramos, Director of Programs at Urban Indigenous Collective and a portrait painter, this dialogue explores how art becomes both remembrance and action—supporting Indigenous relatives impacted by violence while calling for awareness, justice, and collective responsibility.🕑: 05:15 PM - 05:30 PMMindful Transition🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:15 PMI Will Speak: Poetry Workshop as Creative HealingHost: Joel Sedano (UIC MMIP Task Force)Info: This workshop will be held at The People's Forum (320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018). This workshop, hosted by UIC's MMIP Task Force Member Joel Sedano, explores how poetry can intervene where institutional language fails. Through guided readings and generative exercises, the workshop invites participants to work with personal narratives, community histories, or archival fragments as entry points for creative expression. 🕑: 06:15 PM - 06:30 PMClosing Remarks🕑: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PMMindful TransitionUIC🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PMGrowing Intentions: Indigenous Plant Listening & Tea Ritual for TransformationHost: Sheena Hanscel (The Pollen Patch)Info: This session will be held at Urban Indigenous Collective's Community Center (315 West 39th Street, Suite 1206, New York, NY 10018) This workshop helps participants rebuild trust in their perception, intuition, and ability to feel safe being present in their bodies, which can be disrupted by trauma. The session's core message is that disconnection is not permanent; our relationship with our inner knowing can be restored. The simple, accessible practice of 'Plant Listening' is offered to begin this healing relationship with self and with plants. Plants, known in many Indigenous languages as 'the ones who take care of us,' are viewed as living relatives who actively support our wellbeing, not as resources to be used. Through direct sensory engagement, participants are invited to trust their experience without judgment. The call-in is an act of returning to self-trust, believing that what we tend with care can grow. 🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PMMindful Transition🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:15 PMSoul Retrieval: Calling Back the Parts of OurselvesHost: EkisInfo: This session will be held at Urban Indigenous Collective's Community Center (315 West 39th Street, Suite 1206, New York, NY 10018) Hosted by Ekis, the first part of this session include a short description and visual slideshow presentation of the modality and healing process. Gigi Nathan will join via Zoom hold prayer and a brief wellness check-in with kin in attendance before closing the circle. 🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:30 PMMindful Transition🕑: 03:30 AM - 04:15 PMREMEMBERANCEHost: Omi Monét (Blackfoot/Afro-Indigenous)Info: This session will be held at Urban Indigenous Collective's Community Center (315 West 39th Street, Suite 1206, New York, NY 10018) Hosted by Omi Monét, REMEMBERANCE is a workshop about tapping into the embodiment of who we are now (because Western-colonial healing assumes that our best, most healed version of ourselves exists in the future), while honoring the Missing and Murdered (Afro) Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQIA+ people who shaped our personhood.🕑: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PMMindful Transition🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:15 PMCuerpo-Territorio (Body-Territory)Host: Teresa MateusInfo: This session will be held at Urban Indigenous Collective's Community Center (315 West 39th Street, Suite 1206, New York, NY 10018) Rooted in the Q'eqchí Maya framework of *Cuerpo-Territorio* (Body-Territory) by healer Lorena Cabnal, this workshop, hosted by Teresa Mateus, connects violence against Indigenous peoples with violence against the Land and Water Bodies. Through Andean energy medicine, based on Ayni (reciprocity) with plant, mountain, and water bodies, participants will engage their ancestral relatives. Using ceremonial elements (plant, water, stone), the group will collectively clear hucha (heavy energy) via Pachamama's (Mother Earth’s) cosmic practice of recycling to restore it to the natural cycle of life. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/mmiwgt2s-nyc-east-coast-summit/100001986991957433 - **Event Categories**: Business, Workshops, Art, health-wellness, literary-art, Entertainment, Theatre, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: The People's Forum - **lat**: 40.7544504 - **long**: -73.99326429999999 - **full address**: The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: MMIWGT2S NYC+ EAST COAST SUMMIT - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/6cdc1459bb4e9a725e9b6fa93ff3143bda4ab30f4ddb572948cdf1d9a2c5b8cf-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf2f2ee-gmir.jpg?v=1776333930 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is MMIWGT2S NYC+ EAST COAST SUMMIT being held? - **A:** MMIWGT2S NYC+ EAST COAST SUMMIT takes place on Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sat, 09 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm at The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing MMIWGT2S NYC+ EAST COAST SUMMIT? - **A:** MMIWGT2S NYC+ EAST COAST SUMMIT is organized by Urban Indigenous Collective. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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