Molly Curtis has been an immigration attorney in Los Angeles for twenty years, after having taught English at UCLA and the Los Angeles Unified School District.  She has degrees from Goddard College and People’s College of Law. As a young college student in 1970, she met Lela Rhoades, an 84-year-old Pit River Indian woman, in Redding, California. They became friends and recorded and preserved Rhoades’ history and knowledge of her people in Lela Rhoades, Pit River Woman.