Dolezal is the president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, chairwoman of the city’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission, adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University and commentator in the Inlander weekly newspaper. Formerly she was director of education at the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene. She spoke at a demonstration in Baltimore last month after the death of a black man there that sparked national outrage. And her leadership of the NAACP was cited by the city when announcing that a three-state regional division of the national organization would meet in Spokane this summer.

But questions have arisen about her background and her numerous complaints to police of harassment. Members of her family are challenging her very identity, saying she has misrepresented major portions of her life. More here.

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