By: Curtison Badonie, CSVANW Media & Communications Coordinator

Recently, the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women held our 6th Annual Tribal Leaders Summit.  At this summit we were honored to host various solution-based presentations to help increase conversations around public safety for our Native women, children, men, and our LGBTQ Two-Spirit relatives. The two-day summit was a free briefing for tribal, state and federal officials and those who work with victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

For this blog, we gathered multiple photos that were taken by two of our CSVANW team members, Sierra and Curtison, to create a illustrative narrative of how the summit functioned. We also had a professional photographer present for the summit to capture this annual engagement and to document this networking and learning opportunity. The photos from our professional photographer will be available soon on our CSVANW website. 

Our two-day TLS 2019 story was updated throughout the event on Instagram along with live updates on Twitter. As an organization, we would like to encourage you to follow us on Instagram to receive our regular updates and to view the TLS 2019 story in our Story Highlights.  

We hope that you will enjoy the photo blog that we have assembled. If you do enjoy it, please share it with your family, friends, community, and tribal leaders. This event was very memorable for us as a team and we were so pleased with all of you that were able to make it.

Thank you for all that you do in your communities! We hope to see you again in the near future as we continue to do this work to address violence and offering the supports needed for our communities to lead safe and healthy lives.