Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice - Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

Join us for an in-person screening of the PBS documentary, 'Warrior Lawyers', followed by a panel discussion including the filmmaker, Audrey Geyer; Holly T. Bird, co-Executive Director of Title Track; and JoAnne Cook, JD, Appellate Judge of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.

'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. For more information visit www.warriorlawyers.org.

Audrey Geyer has been a video director/producer for over 20 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 social affairs documentaries that tell stories of Midwest communities and cultures underrepresented in the media. And that help foster empathy in our viewers, expand their knowledge, encourage cross-cultural understanding as well as encourage dialogue and inclusiveness, appreciation for diversity and 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.’