Native American Heritage Month program featuring Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, and a panel of other Native American women “firsts” including Abby Abinanti (Yurok), Chief Judge, Yurok Tribe and First Native American Woman to pass the California Bar Exam; Kimberly TeeHee (Cherokee), first Delegate-designate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation and former senior policy advisor for Native American affairs in the White House; Stacy Leeds (Cherokee), Willard H. Pedrick Dean and Regents Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and first Native American woman to serve as a law school dean; and Valerie Nurr’araluk Davidson (Yup’ik), President/CEO of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium; interviewed by Makalika Naholowa'a, Executive Director, Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. and President, National Native American Bar Association (and first Native Hawaiian in this role). Sponsored by the National Native American Bar Association.
Followed by the release of the study “Excluded and Alone: Examining the Experiences of Native American Women in the Law and a Path Toward Equity.” Presented by Firekeepers Circle Co-Chairs, Jin Hwang, member, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, and Linda Benally, Past President of the National Native American Bar Association.
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