Recovered/Located NV - Michelle Enfield, 48, transgender/HIV activist, visiting as speaker, Reno, 18 Sep 2019

[GuyfromCanada]

The Los Angeles Police Department has issued a Missing Persons alert for Michelle Enfield, a Los Angeles-based Two-Spirit transgender Navajo activist and HIV specialist who has been missing since Sept.18, 2019.

Enfield was reportedly last seen in Reno, Nevada on Sept. 18.
She had been flown to Reno to speak at a two-day event from Sept. 10-12 organized by the Family Violence Prevention Project of the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada.

More at Urgent: Trans/HIV activist Michelle Enfield is missing

When was Michelle actually reported missing? Why would she still be in Reno on Sep 18 if Sep 12 was the last day of the event she was attending? The article states that she didn't show up on Sep 12 stating that she didn't feel well. When did she check out of the hotel?

 

[PayrollNerd]

".....Enfield arrived on Wednesday, Sept. 11 and spoke at the conference. However, she told the organizers the next day that she was not feeling well and could not speak at that Sept. 12 session."

She must have woke up sick on 9/12? Jet Lag? Hangover? Food Poisoning? I wonder if the sponsor had anyone go check on her to see if she needed a doctor.

She could have planned a post conference vacation or maybe she had family in the area. What was going on between 9/12-9/18? She has to be on camera somewhere. You can't breathe in Vegas without it being recorded.

 

[dulcinea]

The above posted link says she was found and is on a bus back to Los Angeles.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Yay!! From link:

UPDATE 10-4/8:00pm: Michelle Enfield’s friends Leland Morrill and Yue Clehona Begay and Michelle’s sister Tina Stanley report that Michelle has been found and is on a bus back to Los Angeles. We have no more details at the moment but Tina tells the Los Angeles Blade that she believes that everyone working together helped find her sister and she is very, very grateful. “I’m so grateful she’s safe and on her way home,” Tina said, choking back tears. “You never know what’s lurking out there. But it’s amazing how true love and so many people working together made it work!”

Word spread quickly on social media, with this Los Angeles Blade story being shared by Nevada members of the Human Rights Campaign, Equality California’s Silver State Equality, This Is Reno reporter Bob Conrad who alerted the mayor of Reno and their police department, Brody Levesque who contacted the California Highway Patrol, and the members of the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada who invited Enfield to speak in Reno.

And finally great news: Michelle Enfield has been found!

We will do a followup story when she’s up for it.