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2026 Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls Day on the Hill

2026 Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls Day on the Hill

Join us for the second Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls Day on the Hill. This is more than an event — it’s a powerful day of action, remembrance and change!

Together we will:

  • Shine a light on Minnesota’s missing and murdered Black women and girls
  • Honor and elevate the stories of those taken too soon
  • Mobilize for solutions and transformative actions

Download the 2026 Day on the Hill invite.

 

Day on the Hill

 

Day on the Hill speakers

  • Director Kaleena Burkes, Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls
  • Commissioner Bob Jacobson, Department of Public Safety
  • Tatiana Kilgore, impacted mother
  • Sen. Bobby Joe Champion
  • Chief Booker Hodges, Bloomington Police Department
  • LaRhon Latimer, impacted father
  • Comfort Dondo, executive director and founder, Phumulani
  • Suwanna Kirkland, National Black Police Association, Dakota County
  • Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten
  • Sharon Sayles Belton, former mayor of Minneapolis

Organizations attending

About the Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls (MMBWG) was established to reduce and end the systemic neglect and violence faced by Black women and girls in Minnesota. The office is housed in the Office of Justice Programs. Learn more about the office.

Monday, April 13, 2026
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul MN 55155
Office of Justice Programs
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