April Eve Wiberg
April Eve Wiberg is a Medicine Spirit Dancer, a Canadian American northern Cree–Lakota Sioux iskwêw (woman), and an Indigenous human rights movement builder. She is a proud mother of two. April Eve comes from Edmonton and is a Mikisew Cree First Nation member whose traditional territory covers a large portion of Northeastern Alberta (Treaty 8). She comes from a large, blended, bi-racial family of four brothers and three sisters.
As an MMEIP (Missing or Murdered and Exploited Indigenous Peoples) family member, advocate, and survivor, April Eve founded the Stolen Sisters & Brothers Action Movement (SSBAM, formerly named the Stolen Sisters Awareness Movement). SSBAM is a 100% grassroots movement (grassroots = non-funded) taking action and raising awareness for the ongoing human rights crisis of MMEIP. The first Stolen Sisters Awareness Walk was held in Edmonton on May 12, 2007. It was the first awareness walk in the province of Alberta, Canada, raising provincial, national, and international awareness specifically on the violence and disproportionate number of missing, murdered, and exploited Métis, Inuit, Non-Status, and First Nations Women and Girls. Today, the SSBAM also raises awareness and is taking action for Missing or Murdered and Exploited Indigenous Two-Spirited Kin as well as Indigenous men and boys.
April Eve is an intergenerational survivor of the Indian Residential School system and, in her lifetime, has overcome addiction, racism, homelessness, sexual exploitation, and family and gender-based violence. Ms. Wiberg continues to strive to break the cycle of poverty and genocide by being a hardworking grassroots advocate and volunteer.
April Eve is actively involved in her community as an acclaimed MMEIP advocate, keynote speaker, and lived experience/subject matter expert. She has committed her life to being a strong voice against sexual exploitation, systemic racism, and other human rights abuses. She is a volunteer co-chair on the Alberta Government’s Alberta Centre to End Trafficking in Persons.
Recognitions:
- Aboriginal Commission on Human Rights & Justice’s Social Justice Award (2012)
- Daughters Day Award (2013)
- Rotary Integrity Award (2017)
- Global Woman of Vision Award (2017)
- Esquao Award (2018)
