Suzette Brewer is a freelance writer specializing in federal Indian law and social justice. She has written extensively on Indian Child Welfare, the Supreme Court, Native voting rights, environmental issues on Indian reservations, the opioid crisis, violence against Native women and children and much more. Her broadcast work includes “A Broken Trust: Sexual Assault and Justice on Tribal Lands” (2019) for Scripps News Service in Washington, D.C., which won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism grand prize for reporting on human rights and social Justice. She is the 2015 recipient of the Richard LaCourse-Gannett Foundation Al Neuharth Investigative Journalism Award for her work on the Indian Child Welfare Act, and a 2018 John Jay/Tow Juvenile Justice Reporting Fellowship. A member of the Cherokee Nation, she is from Stilwell, Oklahoma.

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