Tuesday, November 5, 12–1:15 p.m.
Rountree Hall, Room 204
Join the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy (IPLP) Program for our Fall 2019 Speaker Series to learn from leading legal advocates.
Dr. Damon Clarke, Chairman of the Hualapai Tribe, joins IPLP alumnus Gabe Galanda (’00) to discuss indigenous advocacy from the perspective of the tribal leader and tribal attorney.
*All IPLP speaker series events are free and open to the public and take place at the James E. Rogers College of Law. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to law-iplp@email.arizona.edu.
Speaker Bios
IPLP alumnus Gabe Galanda is the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. His practice focuses on complex, multi-party litigation and crisis management, representing tribal governments, businesses and citizens. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the field of Native American Law from 2007 to 2020, and dubbed a Super Lawyer by his peers from 2013 to 2020.
Gabe is skilled at defending tribal parties against legal attack by governmental or private parties; advocating for tribal members in disenrollment and other civil rights defense; and representing tribal plaintiffs and defendants in catastrophic personal injury lawsuits. He also assists tribes with transactions and strategy related to various economic diversification initiatives.
The American Bar Association named Gabe a Difference Maker in 2012. The Washington State Bar Association honored him with the Excellence in Diversity Award for his "significant contribution to diversity in the legal profession" in 2014.
For his staunch disenrollment advocacy, the University Arizona College of Law awarded him the Professional Achievement Award, and Western Washington University named him a Distinguished Alumnus in 2018.
Indian Country Today honored Gabe as one of “five people are rocking the world with their forward thinking, innovation and commitment to social justice” in 2013, and as one of "Fifty Faces of Indian Country" in 2017. In 2009, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development honored him as Native American 40 Under 40. He has also received the Native Justice Award from the Northwest Indian Bar Association.
Gabe speaks writes frequently about tribal litigation sovereignty and Indian civil rights issues, having been published over 100 times in such other national periodicals as National Law Journal, Business Law Today, Gaming Law Review & Economics, and Indian Gaming magazine. Most notably, he co-authored a law review article titled, “Curing the Tribal Disenrollment Epidemic: In Search of a Remedy,” which was published by Arizona Law Review in 2015.
Dr. Damon Clarke is Chairman of the Hualapai Tribe. Previously, Dr. Clarke served as Superintendent at Peach Springs Unified School District in Peach Springs and Cedar Unified School District in Keams Canyon, Arizona.
Dr. Clarke also served on the Hualapai Tribal Council and on numerous committees. He is a former teacher and principal at various elementary schools and has over 25 years of experience in the educational field.
He holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Elementary Education from Northern Arizona University.