Airdate: Friday, June 12 at 10 AM
Former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland won the New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial primary this month, and if she wins this November, she would become the first female Native American governor in U.S. history. Haaland was already the first Native American cabinet secretary, which she describes in her new memoir as a uniquely profound experience: “Unlike any previous interior secretary, I had inherited trauma caused by the very institution I led. But I had also inherited the courage, perseverance, and love of community that had been passed down to me since my Pueblo ancestors’ first footsteps on the desert earth.” We’ll talk with Haaland about her reflections on the eve of America’s 250th as a civil servant, and why she still defends the Democratic Party. Her new memoir is “A Voice Like Mine.”