Jessica Alva was a MMIW advocate. Now she’s their latest rallying cry.

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Abstract: Jessica Alva, 35 and mother of six, died on April 6, 2019. Her death has been ruled as a suicide by the San Francisco Office of the Medical Examiner, but her family believes she was a victim of domestic violence resulting in death. Her death is being investigated by the Special Victims Unit of the San Francisco Police Department. Alva is an Indigenous descendent of the Blackfeet and Chickasaw Tribes of the United States, as well as the Aztec and Yaqui Tribes of Mexico. If her family's suspicions are true, her story would be one example of a myriad of cases affections Native American communities known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement, where data shows that Native women are being murdered and going missing at disproportionate rates.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2019

Author	Chavez, Aliyah Jade
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Communication
Primary advisor	Migielicz, Geri
Editor	Brenner, R.B.

Subject	Stanford Journalism
Subject	Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Subject	MMIW
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/vd136fm8448

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Preferred Citation: Chavez, Aliyah Jade (2019). Jessica Alva was a MMIW advocate. Now she’s their latest rallying cry. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/vd136fm8448

Masters Theses in Journalism, Department of Communication, Stanford University

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