March 2025 Group 37 Meeting

Meeting Notes and Agenda

Google Doc - Group 37 Meeting Agenda

Regular Meeting 2-3pm CDT

Introductions - Letter Writing action - be ready to write!

News/Events

IOPT - Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Close Guantanamo

Tabling

MMIW - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Death Penalty

Philippines

Lobbying

Guest Speaker - 3-4pm CDT

Nicole Matthews (She/her/hers)

Nicole Matthews is a descendent of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, and is the CEO of the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition; a statewide Tribal Coalition and National Tribal Technical Assistance Provider, addressing sexual violence and sex trafficking against Native people.

Nicole was one of five researchers who interviewed 105 Native women used in prostitution and trafficking for their report: Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota. Nicole serves as the Chair for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Reward Fund Board; she served as the Vice Chair of Minnesota’s Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women’s Task Force; she serves on the Tri-Lateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women; and she served on the State of Minnesota Attorney General’s Work Group on Sexual Assault. She is a TedX Speaker, and a National and International Speaker on sexual violence and sex trafficking, and the intersections of racism and oppression.

Nicole’s most important role is being a mother, grandmother, sister, auntie, and matriarch.