Tracy Charles King

Mr. King lives and works on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north central Montana. He advocates for justice for youth in his community as founder and president of TO-GA-HE-YO-HE Youth Ranch, an alternative to incarceration for Native American youth; at the state level as a member of the Montana Youth Justice Council and chair of the state committee on disproportionate minority confinement; and on the national level as vice president of the National Indian Child Welfare Association board of directors and member of the board of directors of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Throughout his career, Mr. King based his work with youth on the belief that every young person must have the opportunity to learn and live his/her cultural traditions. He advocates to change longstanding policies that historically removed Native American youth from their communities to boarding schools and now remove youth of color from their families and communities to corrections and treatment institutions.