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Southern Region September 21, 2024 at |
Northern Region September 28, 2024 at |
Taking place at the conference will be a presentation of ‘Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice’, a documentary by Audrey Geyer.
‘Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice’ is a one-hour PBS documentary that is particularly timely and relevant given our country’s current reckoning with racial inequity and systemic racism. The program focuses on the stories of Michigan Native American Lawyers, Tribal Judges and their colleagues who work with Native Nations, their citizens and mainstream institutions to achieve healing and Sacred Justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address, repair and resolve unique and complicated historical, governmental, legal, judicial and social welfare issues, which are most often rooted in discrimination, historical trauma and cultural destruction. Come take a journey into past and present day Indian Country to learn of untold stories that shine a light on Native Americans rising up to create a new path for today and for the next Seven Generations.
Audrey Geyer has been a video director/producer for 25 years. Many of her programs have aired on PBS as well as been distributed to the educational markets and through community screening events. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Visions, a non-profit 501(c) 3 independent video production organization, located in Metro Detroit. Visions mission is to produce compelling and unique social affairs documentaries that tell the stories of Midwest communities and cultures that are underrepresented in the media. Through our programs, we explore themes of social justice, human rights and cross cultural awareness and aim to foster empathy, understanding and dialogue as well as inspire social change. Visions has produced two documentaries on contemporary Native American issues: ‘Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience’ and ‘Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice.’ Geyer has a B.A. from the University of Michigan in film/video studies and a Masters in Social Work from New York University.
