For as long as she can remember, Sarah Deer of the Muscogee Creek tribe has had activist sensibilities.
“From a very early age, I knew that the only way people could improve their lives was to speak out,” says Deer, an assistant professor at William Mitchell College of Law.
Deer’s activism and scholarship have led to startling and impactful changes in laws that govern how violent crimes against American Indian women are prosecuted.
Deer worked on Amnesty International’s Maze of Injustice Report, which drew national attention to the fact that Indian women experience the highest rates of sexual assault of any ethnicity.
