| Native California Indian Artist

L. Frank Manriquez (Tongva/Ajachmem), an award-winning Native California Indian artist working in many media and a tribal scholar, community activist, and language advocate, has exhibited her artwork in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. She has served or serves on a number of boards, including that of the California Indian Basketweavers Association (for 15 years) and the Cultural Conservancy, and is a founding board member of the Advocates for Indigenous California Languages.

Executive Director | National Compadres Network

Héctor Sánchez-Flores is the Executive Director of the National Compadres Network (NCN), an organization that develops and supports culturally centered programs for boys and men of color, Latino and Indigenous youth, and families. NCN draws from the ancestral wisdom and resilience of communities affected by trauma and racism to promote deep healing and transformative, equitable change.

| Sacred Circles Center

Jerry Tello of Mexican, Texan and Coahuiltecan ancestry, raised in South Central Los Angeles, has worked for 40+ years as a leading expert in transformational healing for men and boys of color; racial justice; peaceful community mobilization; and providing domestic violence awareness, healing and support services to war veterans and their spouses.

Director of Green Strategy | Data for Progress

Julian Brave NoiseCat, Director of Green Strategy at the think tank, Data for Progress, and “Narrative Change Director” for the Natural History Museum artist and activist collective, is also a correspondent for Real America with Jorge Ramos and a Contributing Editor at Canadian Geographic.

Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies | Humboldt State

Cutcha Risling Baldy, Ph.D. (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk), Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State and co-founder of the Native Women's Collective, a nonprofit supporting the revitalization of Native American arts and culture, researches Indigenous feminisms, California Indians and decolonization. She is the author of: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age.

Certified Clinical Herbalist

Co-Founder | Wisconsin’s Singing Trees Farm Collective

Danielle Hill, a citizen of the federally recognized Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and a student midwife passionate about reinvigorating Indigenous birthing practices, is a co-founder of Wisconsin’s Singing Trees Farm Collective, a women-owned collaborative land restoration project focused on reintroducing pre-colonial crops in the Midwest and land guardianship based on feminist and Indigenous principles.

Executive Director | Freedom Lodge

Ruby Gibson, Th.D., a longtime champion of women’s rights, earth-centered principles and prayer, Indigenous sovereignty, and somatic healing, developed two intergenerational trauma recovery models—Somatic Archaeology© and Generational BrainspottingTM. She is the author of My Body, My Earth, The Practice of Somatic Archaeolog, and the founder and Executive Director of Freedom Lodge, a non-profit in Rapid City, SD, whose mission is the healing and wellness of all Indigenous people.

Dean of the Faculty of Social Work | University of Manitob

Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D., (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara), Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, previously served as Director of the Indigenous Nations Studies program at the University of Kansas, among many other academic positions. An internationally recognized expert on Indigenous Peoples health and the effects of colonization, he is the author of numerous articles and the co-editor or co-author of several books, including For Indigenous Eyes Only: The Decolonization Handbook.

Poet

Ishmael Hope, an Inupiaq and Tlingit poet, actor and Indigenous scholar, served as the lead writer for the video game, Never Alone (Upper One Games); has published two poetry collections, including Rock Piles Alone the Eddy (Ishmael Reed Publications); and played the character Atka in a feature film, Frontera Azul (The Blue Frontier).

Spokesperson | Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone

Corrina Gould, born and raised in Oakland, CA (territory of Huichuin), is the spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone. An activist who has worked to preserve and protect the ancient burial sites of her ancestors in the Bay Area for decades, she also co-founded Indian People Organizing for Change and the Sogorea Te Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women’s community organization.

Director of Green Strategy | Data for Progress

Julian Brave NoiseCat, Director of Green Strategy at the think tank, Data for Progress, and “Narrative Change Director” for the Natural History Museum artist and activist collective, is also a correspondent for Real America with Jorge Ramos and a Contributing Editor at Canadian Geographic.

Author | Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life

LaNada War Jack, Ph.D., a member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribes, attended UC Berkeley starting in 1968 and became very active in social change movements, including with the Third World Liberation Front that fought to establish ethnic studies programs and in the 1969 Native American take-over of Alcatraz Island. She is the author of the upcoming: Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life.

Stop it at the Source Campaigner | 350.org

Clayton Thomas-Müller (Mathias Colomb Cree/aka Pukatawagan), currently the 'Stop it at the Source' campaigner with 350.org, is an award-winning Winnipeg, Canada-based Indigenous Rights/Climate Justice activist and media producer with 17+ years’ experience organizing in hundreds of First Nations across North America against the fossil fuel industry and leading delegations to major UN and other international conclaves. Clayton also serves on many boards, including for: Black Mesa Water Coalition, Indigenous Climate Action, and Bioneers.

Indigenous Climate Action | Executive Director and Co-Founder

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a Denesuline Indigenous activist, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) of Alberta, Canada, is Executive Director and co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), Canada’s premier Indigenous-led climate justice organization. Deranger, who previously spent 6 years building-up the highly successful international Indigenous Tar Sands campaign, has become widely known as one of the world’s most effective organizers and coalition builders to defend Indigenous people’s rights locally, nationally and globally.

Executive Director | Amazon Watch

Leila Salazar-López, the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, has worked for 20+ years to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights, and the climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange, and Green Corps. She is also a Greenpeace Voting Member and a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America.

Zarina Kopyrina, born in the Siberian tundra of the Sakha Republic (aka Yakutia) in a large family, was introduced to the magic of traditional folkloric music and local Indigenous shamanic cultural practices at a young age by her grandmother and others. After graduating from the University of Yakutsk in Economics, Zorina became very politically and culturally active and eventually began a musical career, traveling globally and becoming a widely sought-after performer, one who has created a unique combination of authentic Yakut traditional shamanic sounds deeply rooted in nature and modern musical forms.

Executive Director | Amazon Watch

Leila Salazar-López, the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, has worked for 20+ years to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights, and the climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange, and Green Corps. She is also a Greenpeace Voting Member and a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America.

Artist

Brus Rubio, of Huitoto and Bora ancestry, is a self-taught painter from the Peruvian Amazon, whose encounter with the anthropologist Jürg Gasché, who was conducting cultural studies in Brus’ community, led to exposure to a wider world and his evolution as an artist whose stunning work always draws from his cultural traditions but has now been able to reach a broader international audience beyond the Amazon.

Director of Global Strategy | Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative

Atossa Soltani is the founder and board president of Amazon Watch and served as the organization's first Executive Director for 18 years. Currently Atossa is the director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, working to protect one of the most biodiverse rainforests on Earth in an alliance with Amazonian indigenous nations of Ecuador and Peru.

Co-Founder | Brasil Solidarity Network

Program Director | Bioneers Indigenous Knowledge Program

Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Program Director of the Bioneers Indigenous Knowledge Program, previously served her Mojave-based tribe in several capacities, including as: first Executive Director at the Chemehuevi Cultural Center, a member of the tribal council, and Chair of the Chemehuevi Education Board and Chemeuevi Headstart Policy Council. Cara is also a highly accomplished photographer/artist.

Founder | Standing Strong Project

Josué Rivas (Mexica/Otomi), founder of the Standing Strong Project and co-founder of Natives Photograph, is an award-winning visual storyteller and educator working at the intersection of art, journalism, and social justice whose work challenges mainstream narratives about Indigenous peoples and builds awareness about issues affecting Native communities. His work has appeared in many publications including National Geographic, The Guardian, and World Policy Journal.

Tribal Councilman | Santa Ysabel Tribal Government

Stanley Ralph Rodriguez, Ph.D., a Tribal Councilman for the Santa Ysabel Tribal Government, Director of Kumeyaay Community College, board member for Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, faculty member at Cuyamaca Community College, and a navy Desert Storm veteran, is an award-winning educator and fluent Kumeyaay speaker dedicated to preserving the language and indigenous songs of his people as well as a renowned Kumeyaay singer and musician.

Nany Zepeda Sanic, of Mayan ancestry, originally from Guatemala, has lived in Mexico, Texas, and now on a regenerative agriculture farm in Hawaii, where she is co-creating an educational center. Focused on Indigenous activism through food, land and community-based wisdom, Nany has collaborated with chefs, farmers, weavers, women run cooperatives, immigration and Indigenous advocacy groups, educators, and entrepreneurs, seeking to build bridges through food.

Founder | O’odham VOICE Against the WALL

Ofelia Rivas, an O’odham traditional seeds gardener from southern Arizona, in 2003 founded O’odham VOICE Against the WALL, a grassroots organization that seeks to defend O’odham cultural and human rights, which include, because her people’s ancestral lands and population straddle the U.S./Mexico border, their right to unfettered access to historical crossing routes along that border.

Councilwoman | Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma

Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal Councilwoman of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma and Hereditary Drumkeeper of its Womens' Scalp Dance Society, Elder and Matriarch, is also an Emmy award winning actress, author, and an internationally renowned, longtime Native and Human Rights and Environmental Justice activist. She led efforts for the Ponca tribe to adopt a Rights of Nature Statute and pass a moratorium on fracking on its territory, and has traveled and spoken around the world.

Project Director | Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples

Morning Star Gali (Ajumawi band/Pit River Tribe), Project Director of Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples, has researched the disproportionate impact of the criminal justice system on Native Americans, worked as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pit River Tribe and continues to be a leading organizer and activist advocating for indigenous sovereignty issues, including missing and murdered indigenous women, climate and gender justice, and sacred site protection.

Movement Building Coordinator | Indigenous Environmental Network

Ozawa Bineshi Albert (Yuchi and Annishinaabe), an Oklahoma-based Native Rights and Environmental Justice activist, is a Movement Building Coordinator with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), currently working on global collaborations to strengthen grassroots feminist movements. A founding board member of IEN and of the Native American Voters Alliance, her previous positions include: Co-Director for the Southwest Organizing Project and Regional Director for the Center for Community Change.

Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator | Indigenous Environmental Network

Simone Senogles wears many hats for the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) as its: Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, Mining Affected Communities Mini-grants Administrator, and Office Manager. She is dedicated to bringing people together across boundaries by building strong connections around food, community, health, and well-being and to revitalizing traditional Indigenous food systems.