Tracie Léost

Tracie Léost

Youth – Métis (2018)

St. Laurent, Manitoba 

“My running shoes provided me with the opportunity to give silence a voice, to create global awareness for a cause I care about, and to turn my passion into a life; a life that I absolutely love. They said I run like a girl, I said good.“

At just nineteen years old, Tracie Léost is a young Indigenous leader, activist, and track and field athlete. In 2014, Tracie won three bronze medals under the Métis flag at the North American Indigenous Games in Regina.

In 2015, after learning of the disappearance of more and more Indigenous women and feeling a growing sense of frustration about the lack of political will to launch an inquiry into the issue, Tracie set out on a four-day 115km run to raise awareness. She raised over $6,000 for the Families First Foundation and garnered international attention. In September 2016, the Government of Canada launched the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Now in her second year in the Indigenous Social Work Program at the University of Regina, she continues to advocate for Indigenous peoples.