Annita Luchessi

ANNITA LUCHESSI is a freelance cartographer and maintains one of the largest databases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in North America. She’s a doctoral student at the University of Lethbridge in the Cultural, Social, & Political Thought program where her dissertation work combines critical Indigenous cartography and feminist study in examining the ways in which maps can help better understand the issue of gender violence in Indian Country. Annita is Southern Cheyenne and her Indian name is Hetoevėhotohke'e, which translates to Evening Star Woman.