Lawanda Lyons-Pruitt: A Trusted Messenger of Vaccine Truth
NAACP Leader Uses Science Facts to Overcome Inoculation Fears
By Nick Welsh | April 8, 2021
Over the years, Lawanda Lyons-Pruitt has heard pretty much everything. For more than three decades, she functioned as both investigator and chief investigator with the Santa Barbara Public Defender’s Office, during which time she worked intimately with people charged with extremely serious crimes. Some, it turns out, were extremely guilty; some only partially so; and others, it also turns out, were actually and factually innocent. Either way, it was Lyons-Pruitt’s job to make sure they all got the best defense the Public Defender’s Office could possibly give.
Today, Lyons-Pruitt — president of the Santa Maria and Lompoc chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — is a major player in a multipronged, multicultural task force created to make sure people of color get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County.
And she’s still hearing pretty much everything.
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