363: From Lived Experience to Leadership with Deb Haaland

About this episode

In this conversation, I sat down with Deb Haaland, a Pueblo woman, mom, sister, auntie, grandma, and one of the first Native American women ever elected to Congress. Deb has actually been on this show before, years ago, when she was chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. Since then, she's served in Congress, run the Department of the Interior, written her memoir, A Voice Like Mine , and now she's running to become New Mexico's next governor: a role no Native woman has ever held in this country's history. She's also someone who's been counted out and asked to prove herself, over and over, in ways her male counterparts rarely are. In this conversation, she talks openly about what that's…