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Turning tragedy into purpose: Gabby Petito’s father advocates for missing Black and brown people and is working on tv series ‘Faces of the Missing’ to highlight missing persons cases he says have received little media coverage

Joseph Petito has spent the last three years advocating for missing Black and brown people through the Gabby Petito Foundation, a nonprofit that strives to raise awareness of missing people and prevent domestic violence.

Frustrated with the lack of progress, Robinson temporarily moved to Arizona, hired an independent investigator and assembled a volunteer search team to look for Daniel. While searching for Gabby, Petito said he was being tagged in social media posts about the term “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” which prompted him to look it up. The term, coined by the late TV news anchor Gwen Ifill, is defined by researchers as the heavier spotlight White women and girls receive when they go missing compared to anyone outside of those demographics.

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