NALSA at King Hall

09/22/2020

Savanna's Act and the Not Invisible Act are both important pieces of legislation and long overdue.

https://www.indian.senate.gov/news/press-release/hoeven-house-passes-savanna-s-act-bill-goes-president-be-signed-law

At least 506 indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been killed in 71 American cities — including more than 330 since 2010. 95% of cases were never even covered by the media and these numbers are considered gross underestimations. (See https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/ for more information)

84% percent of Native women experience violence in their lifetime, and in some tribal communities, Native women are murdered at 10 times the national average.

It is far past time that the violence against women in Native communities is addressed.

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed Savanna’s Act, legislation he cosponsored that requires reporting on missing and murdered Native Americans. The bill, which i...

09/08/2020

Meet Manda, 2L, and President of NALSA! She graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 2016 with a B.A. in Film Studies and a Fine Arts/Digital Design minor. She is interested in Intellectual Property and Corporate Law. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games, drinking too much coffee, and attempting to convince people that the correct plural of fish should be fishes.

09/07/2020

Happy Monday, everyone! Our board spotlight today is on Jackie, a 2L, who is NALSA’s treasurer. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science and a Chicanx Studies minor. She is interested in immigration law and public interest work. In her free time she enjoys embroidering, listening to audio books, and playing with her cat, Panini.

09/07/2020

Say hi to Kate! Kate, a 2L, is the Vice President and Secretary of NALSA. She studied English at the University of the Pacific, and received her teaching credential at Cal-Poly SLO.
She is interested in education and employment law. In her free time, Kate loves photography, crafting, terrible dad jokes, and playing golf.

09/01/2020

Hello and welcome to all of our new followers! NALSA at King Hall is excited to share a little about our organization and goals for this year.