The system is broke, and this week's podcast guest is taking steps to fix it. Dr. Shannon “ᏌᎵ” (Sa-li) Prince is a Boies Schiller Flexner Attorney, Legal Commentator, and Author of Cherokee descent. Her book Tactics for Racial Justice: Building an Antiracist Organization and Community is forthcoming from Routledge on November 30th as part of the Giving Voice to Values series. Dr. Prince represents the Cherokee Nation in its landmark lawsuit against the opioid industry for causing the opioid epidemic on its reservation as well as the Oneida Indian Nation and is helping launch her firm’s Tribal Affairs Task Force. She is also an avid fancy shawl dancer, medicine keeper, yogi, and beadworker. Listen to this episode to hear Shannon talk of her background as an African American, Cherokee, English and Chinese woman, what it was like growing of in predominantly white spaces, how her lineage and culture has grounded her in both her career and personal life, the opioid epidemic lawsuit, the importance of Indigenous representation in 'elite' spaces, Afro-Indigenous futurism, sexism in Indigenous and Black communities being a result of the trauma of colonialism, reconciliation, and the broken education system in America. ... Follow Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram Visit thebrandisfemale.com.