Rosalie Fish
Rosalie Fish is a freshman collegiate runner, currently at Iowa Central running both cross country and track and field. She made national news headlines when last spring at a senior running track at Muckleshoot Tribal School, she ran her state championship races with a red handprint across her face and MMIW written down her leg. Inspired by Boston Marathon Runner: Jordan Marie Daniels, Rosalie wanted to use her platform to bring awareness to cause that impacts not only her reservation, but her family personally - the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women across the US and Canada.
Instantly a famous photo of her taken by native photographer Alex Flett (above) was going viral. ESPN called to have her to a live interview. She went from a regular high schooler at the tribal school to national stage. And if anyone deserves the limelight, it’s Rosalie. Soft-spoken, self-aware, confident, and sure of her need to speak up, it’s clear that Rosalie is giving native issues, native causes, and in particular the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women epidemic the attention they all deserve.
While being a voice for her tribe, she is also having the normal college athlete experience at Iowa Central. She runs a lot. When she’s not running she’s in class, doing homework and then hanging out with her teammates. She gets homesick for her family and friends in coastal Washington state outside of Seattle. She looks forward to making waffles on the weekends.
With all the destruction and political fighting and fears over how the world is changing, knowing that the generation starting to use it’s voice includes those such as Rosalie Fish of Cowlitz Nation and Muckleshoot Reservation gives me home and makes me extremely proud of Powerful Ladies on the rise.
To follow, support, connect, and hear Rosalie speak, you can:
Listen to her Powerful Ladies Podcast and leave a comment.
Email her at rosylfish@gmail.com
Follow her on instagram @rosaliefishx
Buy tickets to her upcoming TedX Youth Talk in Seattle October 27, 2019
