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Join us for our next Public Newsroom with Invisible Institute: Black, Young and Missing

Who goes missing in Chicago? And what happens next to help families find their loved ones? Missing person cases have drawn both local and national attention to how police handle these cases. City Bureau and the Invisible Institute will soon publish an investigative story about how Chicago police handle missing person cases and the impact on families.

Reporters Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute, and Sarah Conway, City Bureau, found that Black people have made up two-thirds of all missing person cases reported to the Chicago Police Department over the last 20 years. 57% of these cases are for Black children under the age of 21.

Join City Bureau and the Invisible Institute to learn about the prevalence of missing Black teens, and how Chicago's housing crisis, the informal economy, sex work, and the public service gap impact Black youth in the city.

Panelists Include:

  • Nikki McKinney is a Chicago-born and raised activist, mother and student. They are the current lead organizer and co-creator of the Street Youth Rise Up Campaign–a direct action and research group of homeless, street-based and home-free youth who want to change the way Chicago sees and treats young people who do what they have to do to survive.

  • Susan Frankel has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Runaway Safeline (NRS), a 24/7 crisis service center that supports teens who have run away or are considering doing so, since August 2018. Prior to joining NRS, she served as the Executive Director of the Chicago Foundation for Education, which provides support and resources to teachers in the Chicago Public School District. Susan has worked with many other child/youth-focused organizations over the course of her career.

  • Dr. Forrest Moore is a Policy Fellow at Chapin Hall. Moore provides strategic guidance on research and evidence use to youth-serving agencies across a multitude of issues, including the overrepresentation of children and young people of color and their families in child welfare and justice systems.

Check out our recording of this Public Newsroom here: