The Pink State

Making #Herstory with Jayme Davis: Changing minds and votes on the legislature floor


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The fourth episode of the season features Jayme Davis. She is a House Representative for District 9 in North Dakota. She is making waves as the first Indigenous person to hold a leadership position in the North Dakota Legislature, where she is head of the Democratic Caucus Chair. In this episode she shares a moving professional triumph after a bill to make a Buffalo hunting gun the state gun and a personal story from her childhood where her mom inspired her acceptance of being who she is, then and now. 

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Jaxon Winters

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The Pink StateBy Andrea Hall and Lauren Furey