Branka Bakšić Mitić

Early life Branka Mitić was born in August 1961 in a Serb family in Zagreb, but grew up in Glina. She is married to Dinko Bakšić, who is a Croat and the brother of former mayor of Glina, Milan Bakšić. At the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence, Bakšić Mitić was in Germany together with family where she stayed for some time before moving to Zagreb. In 2010, she moved back to Glina.

Bakšić Mitić is a 2019 recipient of the Ponos Hrvatske (Pride of Croatia) award, given by the 24sata media company. She also received the Strašne žene (Fierce Women) prize from . During his visit to the affected area on 13 January 2021, the President of Croatia Zoran Milanović organized a meeting with three local representatives, which were the mayors of Petrinja and Sisak, and Bakšić Mitić. A prominent writer Miljenko Jergović, in his column for Večernji list, called Branka Bakšić Mitić an "ideal of hard-headed solidarity".

Year after state authorities in Croatia were still failing to significantly advance reconstruction of numerous towns and villages and Bakšić Mitić still keeps on informing media of terrible living conditions and despair of people living in the area.