Join the League of Women Voters of Moscow for our Speaker Series event, Tribal, State, and Federal Laws, and the Plight of Indigenous Women, featuring Jeanette Moody and Julie Leavitt at 12 p.m. PT.

Leavitt and Moody will discuss the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in this country and Canada. They will also shed light on issues of domestic violence on reservations, which are complicated by jurisdictional issues. Their discussion will include a section on the Violence Against Women Act, which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1994. 

Moody is a second year law student at the University of Idaho College of Law. She is married with four children and a member of the Nez Perce Tribe. She was raised and is still living on the Nez Perce reservation. Prior education includes bachelor's and master's degrees in social work. 

Leavitt is also in her second year of law school at UI. She grew up in Twin Bridges, Mont., and is a descendent of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Before attending law school, Julie earned her bachelor’s degree in communication with an emphasis in organizational communication and advocacy at BYU-Idaho and worked at a domestic violence agency as a public awareness coordinator and shelter manager. 

Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/2XadL38