Branka Bakšić Mitić's work attracted significant public interest in the aftermath of the 2020 Petrinja earthquake. On 3 January 2021 she was an invited guest on the Sunday prime time Nedjeljom u dva talk show. 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 with Bakšić Mitić. The prominent writer Miljenko Jergović, in his column for the Večernji list, called Branka Bakšić Mitić an "ideal of hard-headed solidarity".