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where women share how they tackle career, money, and the world. Today we're

speaking with Native American scholar, advocate, and attorney, Sarah Deer.

Sarah is a citizen of the Muskogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma and a professor of

gender studies at the University of Kansas.

As a legal specialist, she's dedicated her life

to helping native survivors of sexual assault

and domestic violence.

In 2014, she won a MacArthur Genius Grant for her work, and she's the author of the book The Beginning and End of Rape,

Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America.

For more than 25 years, Sarah has worked to close the gaps in

jurisdictions that impact Native women. She's helped change laws, co-authored

four textbooks on tribal Law, testified before Congress four times,

and was appointed by former Attorney General Eric Holder to chair a federal

advisory committee on sexual Violence in Indian Country.

She's here today to talk to us about how a recent Supreme Court ruling may impact survivors,

how she discovered her passion, and why questions of identity matter.

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