Kelly Hallman, PhD, founder and executive director of Indigenous Justice Circle, is an enrolled Cherokee Nation tribal citizen. Hallman was raised in rural Oklahoma and Arizona, and her ancestors were forced from their lands in Georgia and marched on foot 800 miles to Indian Territory on the Cherokee Trail of Tears in 1838–39. Hallman’s grandparents and parents survived the Charles H. Burke Indian School at Fort Wingate, NM, rising from land-dispossessed sharecroppers to become successful ranchers, welders, and construction contractors. Her family has experienced violence, historical trauma, and their impacts, including female relatives denied educational opportunities who later became missing and murdered.