Campaigns

Rosa Marina Flores Cruz is from Juchitán, Mexico, an Indigenous town in the state of Oaxaca. She is an activist empowering Indigenous peoples, with a focus on women’s rights, land rights, agrarian rights, and environmental education.

Instagram: @rosita_marina

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a member of the Mbororo pastoralist people in Chad. She is an expert in the adaptation and mitigation of Indigenous peoples to climate change. She serves as a Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues and was one of 15 women highlighted for championing action on climate change by Time Magazine in 2019.

Instagram: @hindououmar | Twitter: @hindououmar | Facebook: @Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Flor Palmar is a leading figure in Venezuela’s effort to develop bilingual, multicultural education for the nation’s diverse Indigenous peoples. She worked in Venezuela’s Ministry of Education as coordinator of Programs in the Office of Bilingual Intercultural Education, served as a member of the National Commission on Curriculum within the Ministry of Education, and has authored and co-authored international publications on the history and practice of Indigenous education. She is also a storyteller

Instagram: @palmarflor

Alisha "Diinashii" Carlson is a filmmaker and a mother of two that works to carry on Gwich'in song, dance and language through her films, and follows in the footsteps of her Ancestors’ creativity and imagination. She co-created a film in the Gwich'in language that uplifts her culture, ensuring that Gwich'in ways of being continue for future generations. She also works for the Arctic Village Tribal Council.

Instagram: @aknative_

Pania Newton is a New Zealand lawyer and Māori land rights activist who organized the group Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) to protest the development of land at Ihumātao in south Auckland. Watch Pania’s TEDxAuckland on Recognising Indigenous heritage.

Instagram: @panianewton | Twitter: @panianewton | Facebook: @pania.newton

Majorie Kunaq Tahbone is an environmental activist whose artistic work focuses on revitalizing ancient skills such as hide tanning, making traditional regalia, and tool making.Watch Kunaq in a documentary series on Alaskan Natives.

Instagram: @kunaq

Gunn-Britt Retter is a professor, formerly part of the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat, and current Head of Arctic and Environmental Unit for the Saami Council. Listen to a podcast on Arctic Indigenous Communities and Cultures.

Instagram: @gunn_beretter | Twitter: @gunn_beretter

Célia Xakriabá is a Brazilian activist leading a new generation of female Indigenous leaders in the battle against the destruction of Brazil’s forests both in the Amazon and the lesser known Cerrado, a savannah that covers a fifth of the country. She was also recently elected to Brazil's Congress. Learn about the Indigenous struggle for land recognition.

Instagram: @celia.xakriaba | Facebook: @celia.xakriaba | Twitter: @celiaxakriaba

Sônia Guajajara is an activist in Brazil and the first woman to lead the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB - Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil), which brings together 305 ethnicities around the agenda of Indigenous rights. She was also recently elected to Brazil's Congress. Learn about the Indigenous struggle for land recognition.

Instagram: @guajajarasonia | Twitter: @GuajajaraSonia | Facebook: @GuajajaraSonia

Nara Baré is a Brazillian activist who was the first woman to assume the general coordination the largest Indigenous organization in the country, the Coalition of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB). Learn about the Indigenous struggle for land recognition.

Instagram: @narasoaress

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz is an activist who not only helped organize the Igorot student movement in Manila in the 1970s and the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement in the Cordillera, but actively participated in the drafting, negotiations, and adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read her opinion on conserving nature and protecting human rights.

Twitter: @vtaulicorpuz

Twa-le Abrahamson-Swan is an environmental activist and executive director, the River Warrior Society, a collective across the Coeur d’Alene, Colville, Kalispel, Nez Perce, and Spokane tribes; Abrahamson-Swan refocused the collective’s energies on providing pandemic and wildfire relief; daughter of Deb Abrahamson. Support the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Instagram: @innertribalbeat

Deb Abrahamson was an environmental activist and water protector who played a large part in the push to clean up the legacy of uranium mining on the Spokane Indian Reservation; Abrahamson died of cancer in January of 2020, attributing her illness to the very radioactive toxins that she had dedicated her life to saving others from. Support the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Natalie Ball (Black, Modoc, and Klamath) is a mixed-race Black, Modoc, and Klamath mama, artist, and land defender. She creates art influenced by the cultural objects from her Klamath homelands and showcases her work at art museums and galleries all over Turtle Island.

Instagram: @natalie_m_ball

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu affectionately known as Kumu Hina, is a Native Hawaiian Kanaka teacher, cultural practitioner, and filmmaker who uses digital media to protect and perpetuate Indigenous languages and traditions.

Instagram: @KumuHina | Twitter: @KumuHina | Facebook: @KumuHina