is the program manager of Sustainable Community Development with the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC). She has worked on climate change, water security, food security, broadband development, energy development, and nation-building with Indigenous communities for the past 11 years.

is a Hopi archaeologist, ethnographer, and educator who has worked in the American Southwest for 20 years. He is a member of the Greasewood Clan from the village of Bacavi and has focused his professional career on documenting and educating about ancestral Hopi settlements and lifeways.

Diné, is an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Her work is on horse/human relationships and creating educational and research spaces that center nonhuman knowledges. She also does work on Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous feminisms, and organizes an annual horse conference on the Navajo Nation.

Cherokee/Oglala Lakota, is the Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Kansas. He works with Indigenous peoples on issues related to natural resources management/stewardship; energy sovereignty and self-determination; the Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program, land tenure; and how Indigenous knowledge informs natural resources management agencies.

Santa Clara Pueblo, is a mother, poet, and seed keeper, and has worked as the Environmental Health and Justice Coordinator for Tewa Women United for over a decade. She is a full-spectrum doula and has served on several local community boards. As part of her work, she manages the creation of the Española Healing Foods Oasis demonstration garden project and Española Healing Foods Seed Library.

Diné, is from Pinon, AZ. He is Bitterwater clan, born for Big Water clan. For years, Nutlouis has been organizing on environmental justice, food security, energy efficiency, housing, and youth leadership. In his spare time, he likes to work on food security issues and traditional knowledge in agriculture with Native youth, and he enjoys hiking, river rafting, camping, and reading.

Sandia Pueblo/Yuchi/Taos Pueblo/Creek, is enrolled at the University of New Mexico in water resources policy management and community and regional planning. Bernal serves as the Environmental Justice Director for the Pueblo Action Alliance that advocates for the protection of Chaco Canyon, carbon pricing: false solutions to climate change, non-renewable energy divestment, and education on fracking produced water, and extractive colonialism.

Diné/Hopi, creates educational and collaborative films, including the documentary, “‘Shash Jaa’: Bears Ears.” Baca obtained his master’s degree from the Native Voices Program at the University of Washington, and is completing a doctorate in sociocultural anthropology at New York University. He is the Cultural Resources Coordinator at Utah Diné Bikéyah, dedicated to the protection of culturally significant ancestral lands.