Gloria Valencia-Weber 10/23/2010

Gloria Valencia-Weber, a pioneer in establishing the first and second Indian Law Certificate Programs in United States ABA-approved law schools, earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1970 and a master’s degree in communications from Oklahoma State University in 1974. After graduation she worked with the American Civil Liberties Union, taught psychology at OSU and coordinated a program at Oklahoma State University, the Psychology Diversified Students Program, which sought out talented minority students who were underrepresented in the post-graduate degree area of psychology. This program has now produced more doctorate degrees in psychology by Native Americans that any other in the United States. Valencia-Weber was interviewed on behalf of the Angie Debo Series of the Spotlighting Oklahoma Oral History Project chronicling her relationship with the historian beginning with their tie through the ACLU in Oklahoma to her role in the making of the WGBH/PBS documentary Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo.