This year, the Josephine County Missing Person Project has been given an incredible opportunity to attend Crimecon 2024 in Orlando, Florida this September. Crimecon is a weekend-long convention hosted by the Oxygen TV Network that features some of the biggest voices in advocacy and true crime content creation. People from all over the US show up to learn about different cases, most of them unsolved, and support victims and their loved ones. This year, John Lordan, the man behind the LordanArts Youtube channel and Seriously Mysterious podcast, has graciously offered to sponsor a table for the Josephine County Missing Person Project. There’s only one little problem- JoCoMPP is predominantly run by one person, and it is not an ‘official’ nonprofit yet. This is why I need your help. John can secure the table and a sign for JoCoMPP, but it is up to me (and hopefully this wonderful community) to make sure that I can get to Orlando to do this. Plane tickets, baggage fees, and the necessary things to set up a table (business cards, stands for flyers etc.) cost more money than I currently have, and likely more than I could make in two months when bills and general life expenses are taken into account. From the moment I founded JoCoMPP, my intention was to make it to Crimecon within the next few years, but I could never have imagined that it would happen this soon. This is why I’m asking all of you lovely people, on behalf of our nearly fifty missing from Josephine County, to help me make this dream a reality. Please, help me take our missing people to the largest true crime convention in the nation. They deserve this chance to be seen, their families deserve to have their loved ones stories heard and shared as far as they can go. The amount I’m requesting in this LFEBridge may seem large, but if there are any funds leftover from the trip they will be put towards further advocacy endeavors when I get back. There is also a possibility for excess funds to be used to help a family member of one of our locally missing come to Crimecon with me to advocate for their loved one in person. I know that it’s a lot to ask, but I also know that this is a huge networking opportunity that I cannot deny our missing people. I want to go to Crimecon, but they NEED to go. This isn’t for me. This is for Ericka, Toby, Kevin, Cindy, Kenneth, Teresa, Domingo, and the dozens of others whose stories I have been working to share with you. Any amount helps, it's all going to add up to Let’s get JoCoMPP to Crimecon! <3 Gwen Barringer, founder of JoCoMPP
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