During the 2016 Democratic National Convention , Parker served as one of the platform committee members representing Bernie Sanders after having been an early and vocal supporter of his 2016 presidential campaign . She was initially hesitant to do so , but accepted then – Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz 's offer to join the platform committee , seeing it as an opportunity to advance the causes she supported , particularly " Native American sovereignty , climate justice , to increase ... protections for women , and income inequality " ; and to honor ' Sanders and ' represent his vision ' on the committee . " As a platform committee member , Parker " helped to ensure that Native policy initiatives were ultimately rolled into the party 's larger platform . " She also authored one of the twelve " priority amendments " to the Democratic platform that the Sanders campaign supported , which sought to introduce language that explicitly promoted using global warming as a " test " for whether any policy or decision should be supported within relevant federal agencies
2016 Democratic National Convention
2016 Democratic National Convention
Deborah Parker