A Mother’s March for Justice

Liz Jin
4 min readJun 29, 2022

For 26 Years, Penny Dees marched the streets of New Jersey in search of her daughter’s killer

Quiana Dees was murdered when she was 12 years old; image source.

People march for many reasons. To celebrate, to battle, to commemorate, to protest. But for one mother, the reason was intensely personal. For nearly three decades, Penny Dees marched along the same route in Asbury Park, New Jersey, to find justice for her little girl.

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Liz Jin

“I wake up in the morning with a desire to both save the world and savor the world. That makes it hard to plan my day.”