Envision Success for Veterans

03/29/2026

Hooked on Justice is a new partner with Envision Success and we are excited in this opportunity.

Hooked on Justice, founded by Emily Barnes, is a nationwide advocacy organization dedicated to restoring dignity, demanding accountability, and defending the rights of incarcerated people. We serve as a bridge between those who have been silenced and the justice they deserve.

We believe justice without humanity is not justice at all. Our work is guided by four core pillars:

Voice
Amplifying the stories of individuals the system seeks to ignore, ensuring lived experiences are heard, documented, and respected.

Accountability
Exposing systemic failures and holding correctional and legal institutions to the highest standards of ethics, transparency, and human rights.

Community
Providing a lifeline of support, education, and connection for families impacted by incarceration, breaking isolation and strengthening collective power.

Justice Reform
Driving meaningful policy change at the state and federal levels through targeted advocacy, research, and coalition-building.

Supporting Veterans Behind the Walls
We are committed to advocating for incarcerated veterans—men and women who have served our country and now face the challenges of incarceration. Many carry the invisible wounds of service, including trauma and unmet mental health needs.

Hooked on Justice works to ensure these individuals are not forgotten by:

Advocating for access to proper medical and mental health care

Supporting reentry pathways tailored to veterans

Raising awareness of service-related trauma within the justice system

Connecting veterans to resources, dignity, and second chances

From our home base in Oklahoma to families across the country, Hooked on Justice, under the leadership of Founder Emily Barnes, remains steadfast in the belief that every person has a story worth telling—and a life worth fighting for.

Emily Barnes
Hooked on Justice
Founder
405-693-3278
[email protected]

03/29/2026

Teresa Walker Grizzle

02/17/2026

Norman Emergency Management Volunteers

Some disappearances barely make a ripple outside the place where they happen. No national alerts. No cable news countdown clocks. Just a growing silence — and people who love them left searching for answers.

That’s where the case of Brandy Koassechony stands tonight.

Brandy is 36 years old and was last seen on December 22, 2025, in Norman, Oklahoma. Since that day, there has been no confirmed contact, no verified sighting, and no public resolution explaining where she went or what happened next. Investigators believe she may be somewhere in the Oklahoma City metro area, but uncertainty still surrounds her movements after she was last seen.

Brandy is a member of the Comanche and Apache tribal communities — a detail that matters, not just culturally, but statistically. Indigenous women continue to be disproportionately represented in missing and endangered cases across the United States, often receiving less media coverage and fewer sustained investigative resources. When someone disappears from these communities, the risk of their case fading from public view is painfully real.

Descriptions matter in missing cases because small details can trigger recognition. Brandy is about 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs approximately 190 pounds, and has brown eyes and blonde hair. At the time she was last seen, she was reported to be wearing black yoga pants and a shirt. Ordinary clothing. An ordinary day. The kind of description that makes you realize how quickly an everyday moment can become the dividing line between “last seen” and “still missing.”

That phrase — last seen — always carries weight. It marks the moment when normal life quietly ends and a question mark takes its place.

Some disappearances are immediately classified as suspicious. Others are first treated as voluntary absences. But regardless of classification, time is critical. Every hour that passes without clarity makes reconstruction harder — memories blur, digital trails grow cold, and witnesses become more difficult to locate. That is why public awareness is not noise — it is leverage.

Cases like Brandy’s depend heavily on community eyes and community memory. Someone may recall a conversation, a ride offered, a social media message, a brief encounter that seemed unimportant at the time. Tips are often built from fragments — and fragments are enough to reopen doors.

It is also important to say this clearly: being an adult does not make a disappearance less urgent. Adults do not simply cease existing without leaving behind impact, relationships, and unfinished conversations. Every missing adult case deserves the same seriousness, the same persistence, and the same refusal to look away.

Right now, Brandy’s case is being handled by local law enforcement. The Norman Police Department is the listed investigating agency, and the case number assigned is 26-1149. That means there is an active file, an active record, and — hopefully — active follow-through. But official files alone are not what bring people home. Attention does. Pressure does. Visibility does.

If you are in Oklahoma — especially in Norman or the greater OKC area — this is one of those moments to slow your scroll and actually look at the face attached to the name. Missing posters are not just graphics. They are interrupted lives.

Someone knows something.

Someone always does.

If you have information related to Brandy Koassechony’s disappearance — no matter how small it may seem — contact the Norman Police Department at 405-321-1600 and reference case number 26-1149.

11/20/2025