In this episode of 13 Days of Silence: Living in the After, Teri Lyn sits down with Katrina Burns, Chair and Program Director of the Dear Casi Foundation, to talk about Casi Ann Pogue, the woman whose disappearance changed an entire family and ultimately became the catalyst for something much larger.

Casi has been missing since July 5, 2020. For the people who love her, living in the after has meant living without answers—continuing to search, advocate, hope, and somehow continue living while someone they love is still missing.

Katrina shares Casi's story, what it is like for a family to navigate the world of missing persons, and how that experience exposed enormous gaps in resources and support for families searching for someone they love.

Those gaps helped give rise to the Dear Casi Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping families of missing people with practical guidance, awareness campaigns, search resources, personalized webpages, fundraising support, community mobilization, and connections to organizations and technology that can assist in searches. Katrina now leads the foundation's family-support efforts and is often one of the first people families encounter when they don't know where to turn.

This conversation is about Casi, but it's also about ambiguous loss—what happens when there is no ending, no answer, and no clear path forward—and what can happen when one family's search becomes a mission to make sure other families don't have to navigate that uncertainty alone.

Connect with & support the Dear Casi Foundation

Dear Casi Foundation website
Email: team@dearcasi.org
Phone: 833-981-CASI (2274)
Katrina: katrina@dearcasi.org
Request help / Contact Dear Casi
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13 Days of Silence: Living in the After
Hosted by Teri Lyn