Rising Hearts at the 2nd Annual 2025 Every Woman’s Marathon

Stay tuned to this page for updates, tentative schedule of events and fundraising opportunities!

We are coming to the Every Woman’s Marathon, November 16, 2025, in Scottsdale, AZ! Rising Hearts is committed to helping the running and outdoor spaces a more safe, supportive, diverse, inclusive, accessible and equitable space, not just for Indigenous runners, but for everyone who enjoys movement and who wants to see themselves in these spaces! And we are exciting to be collaborating with the Every Woman’s Marathon this year to increase Indigenous Representation, bring community together, help give back to community, and celebrate Native Heritage Month!

Stay tuned for more announcements, our fundraising efforts, and more!

Event / Race Information:
+ November 14-15, 202 | Wellness Fair & Expo
+ November 15, 2025 | Rising Hearts Team Bib Pick Up
+ November 16, 2025 | Marathon, race day

Tentative Schedule of Events:
+ TBD

Kali KO Mequinonoag Reis (Seaconke Wampanoag, Cape Verde)
Citizen of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, Kali is the first Indigenous Woman fighter to become a World Boxing Champion. First Recipient of the Rhode Island Community Hero Award. the North American Indigenous Athletic Hall of Fame in January 2022. She received the “Key to the City '' in her hometown city of East Providence Rhode Island in front of her friends and family. Reis is also the proud recipient of the “Misty Upham Award” which was presented at the 2022 Red Nation International Film Festivals tribute award ceremony. Kali has also attained 6 World Titles in 2 weight classes picking up the WBA IBO & WBO Super Lightweight World titles in 2021/2022; IBA UBF & WBC Middleweight titles 2015/2016. Kali’s win of the WBC Middleweight World Title made history as the first world title fought in New Zealand. Kali also made history when she participated in HBOs’ first ever Women’s televised bout in 2018.

In 202

Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone (Sičangu Lakota)
Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, is a fourth generation runner, athlete advocate, community organizer, project manager, filmmaker, founder of Rising Hearts and a mom to a 3 year old and 1 year old twin girls.

Since the 2019 Boston Marathon, she uses her platform - #RunningForJustice, to help raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives by dedicating the miles she runs to a missing or murdered Indigenous person - their families, survivors and advocates WHILE CONTINUOUSLY AND PASSIONATELY FUNDRAISING TO GIVE BACK TO THE HEART WORK THE FAMILIES, ADVOCATES AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE CONSTANTLY DOING.

Jordan is committed to helping make the running and community spaces a more equitable, safe, visible, supportive, diverse, inclusive, affordable and accessible place for people today and the next generations through storytelling, Rising Hearts Race organizing, Running with Purpose Athlete Advocate program and Running On Native Lands programs.

SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT:

RUNNING FOR RISING HEARTS

FUNDRAISING GOAL: $10,000

Rising Hearts began in January 2017, with our purpose and passion to create a community and platform that brings community together. Rising Hearts started off as an organization that only focused on Indigenous communities and helping to grassroots organize to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would have crossed my own Tribe and community in South Dakota. Since then, RH has evolved, grown, adapted, and more recently, pivoted in 2020, after the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Nina Pop, to live in the more Indigenous way of being and living, Mitakuye Oyasin (We Are All Related), so we created programming and fundraising efforts to use all forms of movement to bring people together, raise awareness of the things that matter, and create a better future for the next generations. Now, in our biggest year yet, our make it or break it year to create a financially stable future for Rising Hearts, our heart, legs, and feet are moving to raise funds!

Notable Mentions of our Impact:
We've helped bring runners to races like the Boston Marathon, New York City Marathon, She Is Beautiful 5k/10k, Orca Half Marathon, Cocodona 250, Western States Endurance Run 100, Toronto Marathon, and part of running events like The Running Event in Austin TX since 2022! We have over a dozen partnerships with brands and community. Helping to connect organizations and Race Directors with Indigenous Peoples to implement and adopt land acknowledgements at their events, support 38 RH Running With Purpose Athlete Advocates in their passions, over 25 RH Charity Runners, create workshops and panels to help inform community and bring community together. We are so honored to get to be able to do this work, and we hope with these efforts, we can make an impact for Rising Hearts. We have made 4 short films to elevate community voices, along with a few other mini short films! www.risinghearts.org and www.risinghearts.org/stories

Mission:
Rising Hearts is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to amplifying community voices through kinship, movement advocacy, and storytelling. We empower diverse communities by fostering intersectional collaboration, promoting cultural integrity, and creating meaningful change for the next generations. Through our programs, we inspire collective action, elevate Indigenous and community centered narratives, creating safe and supportive spaces, and mobilize support for those in need.

Much of the heart work we prioritize is cultivating kinship with brands, companies and groups, while creating meaningful collaborations with the Rising Hearts athletes, community partners and broader movement community.

Vision:
To foster a world where diverse voices and bodies are amplified, celebrated, protected, and empowered through authentic kinship, meaningful collaboration, and advocacy. Rising Hearts envisions a future where meaningful connections between athletes, community partners, and allies spark collective action, inspire positive change, and elevate the stories that unite and strengthen our diverse communities.

Our Programs:
Running On Native Lands Initiative
Running With Purpose Athlete Advocates
Rising Hearts Stories | Filmmaking
Virtual Movement Events | Race Organizing
RH Charity Runners Program
Consulting - DEI / Collab opportunities / Facilitating Connections / Workshops
Roles: Programs Coordinator (PTE), Executive Director/Lead Organizer (FTE)

We are so excited to be in Boston, with community, celebrating community and putting it all out there with the lands as we all run from Hopkinton to Boylston!

We are also very exited to know that some of our Running With Purpose Athlete Advocates, and Charity runners for Rising Hearts will be with us as well. We will be sure update this page with everyone’s bib! And you’ll get a chance to meet most of them at our Meet and Greet on Saturday April 19th!