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Aakaluk Adrienne Blatchford (Iñupiaq/Yupik) (she/they)
Aakaluk Adrienne Blatchford (Iñupiaq/Yupik) (she/they)

Geoengineering Outreach Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)

Turtle Island

Adenike Titilope Oladosu
Adenike Titilope Oladosu

Executive Director, I Lead Climate Action Initiative

Nigeria

Aditi Sen
Aditi Sen

Climate and Energy Program Director, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

Turtle Island/USA

Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas
Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas

Head of COP30 Unit at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil

Brazil

Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman

Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!

Turtle Island/USA

Amy Westervelt
Amy Westervelt

Executive Editor, Drilled

Costa Rica

Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz

Investigative Journalist, author, lecturer, Washington, DC

Turtle Island/USA

Aya Mariyam Rahil Naseem
Aya Mariyam Rahil Naseem

Marine Biologist, Co-Founder and Vice President, Maldives Coral Institute

Maldives

Ayshka Najib
Ayshka Najib

Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) Just Transition Working Group, Fridays For Future MAPA, UNICEF Youth Advocates

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Ayumi Fukakusa
Ayumi Fukakusa

Executive Director, Climate change and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Japan

Japan

Brianna Fruean
Brianna Fruean

Climate Activist and Founder of Samoan chapter Pacific Climate Warriors

Pacific Islands/Aotearoa/New Zealand

Bridget Burns
Bridget Burns

Director of Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Turtle Island/USA

Bronwen Tucker
Bronwen Tucker

Global Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager, Oil Change International

Canada

Bryanna R. Brown (Inuit)
Bryanna R. Brown (Inuit)

Political Advisor and Land and Water Advocate, Indigenous Climate Action

Canada

Bénédicte Larissa
Bénédicte Larissa

Partner, ENAGRI-CI

Ivory Coast

Callie Veelenturf
Callie Veelenturf

Founder and Executive Director, The Leatherback Project

Panama

Cara Page
Cara Page

Founder of Changing Frequencies and Co-founder of the Healing Histories Project

Turtle Island/USA

Caroline Mair-Toby (Warao and Kalinago)
Caroline Mair-Toby (Warao and Kalinago)

Chief Empowerment Officer, SHE Changes Climate; Director, Institute for Small Islands; Global Ambassador for the Warao Nation of Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation)
Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca Nation)

Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator

Turtle Island/USA

Catalina Ruiz-Navarro
Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Journalist and Director of Volcánicas Magazine

Mexico

Christiana Figueres
Christiana Figueres

Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2010 to 2016), Founding Partner, Global Optimism

Costa Rica

Cindy Wiesner
Cindy Wiesner

Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

Turtle Island/USA

Claire Charlo (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes)
Claire Charlo (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes)

Indigenous Feminisms Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network

Turtle Island

Clara Vondrich
Clara Vondrich

Senior Policy Counsel, Public Citizen’s Climate Program and Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Turtle Island/USA

Colette Pichon-Battle
Colette Pichon-Battle

Vision and Initiatives Partner for Taproot Earth, Lawyer and Climate Justice Activist

Turtle Island/USA

DB - dipti bhatnagar
DB - dipti bhatnagar

The Commission Project

Mozambique

Daiara Tukano (Tukano de Alto Rio Negro)
Daiara Tukano (Tukano de Alto Rio Negro)

Indigenous Activist and artist

Brazil

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Māori NZ, Iwi: Ngaa Rauru, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine)
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Māori NZ, Iwi: Ngaa Rauru, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine)

Te Pāti Maori Wāhine Co-Leader, MP for Te Tai Hauāuru

Aotearoa

Devi Aggriani (Taluk)
Devi Aggriani (Taluk)

Member of the Indigenous Taluk Kuantan community & President, Indigenous Women's Association of the Archipelago (PEREMPUAN AMAN)

Indonesia

Dr. Jemilah Mahmood
Dr. Jemilah Mahmood

Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health

Malaysia

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Navajo & Tsétsêhéstâhese/Cheyenne)
Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Navajo & Tsétsêhéstâhese/Cheyenne)

Indigenous Musician, Scholar, and Community Organizer

Turtle Island

Dr. Maliha Khan
Dr. Maliha Khan

President and Chief Executive Officer, Women Deliver

Pakistan/United Kingdom

Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa (Quechua)
Dr. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa (Quechua)

Director of Ancestral Traditional Medicine within the Vice Ministry of Ancestral Traditional Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

Bolivia

Elizabeth Kahurani
Elizabeth Kahurani

Network Director Africa, Global Strategic Communication Council

Kenya

Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi (Sámi)
Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi (Sámi)

Chair of the Sámi Parliament’s Youth Council

Norway

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation)
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation)

Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action

Canada

Erika Martínez Lizarraga
Erika Martínez Lizarraga

President, GoiEner

Spain

Fany Kuiru Castro (Uitoto)
Fany Kuiru Castro (Uitoto)

General Coordinator of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)

Colombia

Farwiza Farhan
Farwiza Farhan

Forest Conservationist, Found & Chair, Forest, Nature & Environment Aceh (HAkA)

Indonesia

Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá)
Federal Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá)

Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA)

Brazil

Fleur Newman
Fleur Newman

Action Empowerment Unit Lead (ACE, Gender and Youth), UNFCCC

Germany

GCV - gina cortés valderrama
GCV - gina cortés valderrama

Climate, gender and economic justice expert

Colombia

Galina Angarova (Buryat)
Galina Angarova (Buryat)

Executive Director, SIRGE Coalition

Siberia

Gloria Majiga
Gloria Majiga

Natural Resources and Sustainable Climate Finance, Tax Justice Network Africa

Malawi/USA

Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Ojibwe)
Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Ojibwe)

Ojibwe Elder, Author, Women of Wellbriety, International, United Nations Observer on Women/Indigenous Issues

Turtle Island/USA

Harriet Shugarman
Harriet Shugarman

Advisory Council Chair, Our Kids Climate, USA

Turtle Island/USA

Heffa Schücking
Heffa Schücking

Founder, Management & Campaign Strategist, Urgewald

Germany

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Coordinator of Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad, Co-chair of International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, SDGs Advocate

Chad

Honorable Cecilia Isabel Requena Zárate
Honorable Cecilia Isabel Requena Zárate

National Senator - President of the Commission on Land and Territory, Natural Resources and Environment / Chamber of Senators - Plurinational Legislative Assembly

Bolivia

Honorable Nusrat Hanje
Honorable Nusrat Hanje

Member of Parliament of Tanzania

Tanzania

Honorable Zali Steggall
Honorable Zali Steggall

Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Australia

Honourable Rosa Galvez
Honourable Rosa Galvez

Canadian Senator

Canada

Hwei Mian Lim
Hwei Mian Lim

Independent Consultant and Co-lead for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement - False Solutions and Dangerous Distractions, The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC)

Malaysia

Jacqueline Patterson
Jacqueline Patterson

Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project

Turtle Island/USA

Janene Yazzie (Navajo/Dine’)
Janene Yazzie (Navajo/Dine’)

Director of Policy & Advocacy, NDN Collective

Diné Bikéyah (Turtle Island)

Jozileia Kaingang (Kaingang)
Jozileia Kaingang (Kaingang)

Executive Director, National Association of Indigenous Women's Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA)

Brazil

Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek)
Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek)

Founder of Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth Network (KOWYN)

Kenya

Julia Horinek (Ponca Nation)
Julia Horinek (Ponca Nation)

WECAN Project Coordinator, Plains Organizer with Movement Rights

Turtle Island/USA

Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi)
Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi)

Co-Executive Director, Women's Earth Alliance (WEA)

Hawaii, Turtle Island/USA

Karabo Mokgonyana
Karabo Mokgonyana

Renewable Energy Campaigner, Power Shift Africa

South Africa

Klelia Guerrero García
Klelia Guerrero García

Tax and Gender Justice Specialist, Latin American and for the Caribbean Network for Social, Economic and Environmental Justice

Ecuador

Laura Cook
Laura Cook

Special Projects Lead, Project Dandelion

United Kingdom

Leila Salazar-López
Leila Salazar-López

Executive Director, Amazon Watch

Turtle Island/USA

Lorraine Chiponda
Lorraine Chiponda

Advisor, Africa Common Transitions Agenda (ACTA), Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Lídia Guajajara
Lídia Guajajara

Indigenous Climate Activist and Communicator from Araribóia Indigenous Territory in the state of Maranhão and WECAN Coordinator in Brazil

Brazil

Majo Andrade Cerda (Kichwa)
Majo Andrade Cerda (Kichwa)

Member of the Council of CONFENIAE, Leader of the Economy and Community Development area, Member of the Kichwa peoples of Serena, Federation of Napo Indigenous Organizations (FOIN)

Ecuador​

Margaret Kwateng
Margaret Kwateng

Campaign Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

Turtle Island/USA

Mari Luz Canaquiri (Kukama)
Mari Luz Canaquiri (Kukama)

President, Kukama Women's Federation of Samiria and Marañón (Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana), 2025 Goldman Prize Winner

Peru

Maria Reyes
Maria Reyes

Climate and Human Rights Activist and Fundraising Coordinator of the Alliance of Non Governmental Radical Youth (ANGRY)

Mexico

Mariann Bassey Orovwuje
Mariann Bassey Orovwuje

Deputy Executive Director of ERA/FoEN and Coordinator, Food Sovereignty Program, Friends of the Earth Nigeria and Africa

Nigeria

Mary Louise Malig
Mary Louise Malig

Policy Director, Global Forest Coalition

Bolivia

Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland; Member, The Elders; Co-Founder, Project Dandelion, Ireland

Ireland

Meena Raman
Meena Raman

Head of Programmes, Third World Network

Malaysia

Memory Kachambwa
Memory Kachambwa

Executive Director, African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Kenya

Michelle Cook (Diné)
Michelle Cook (Diné)

Founder, Divest Invest Protect

Turtle Island/USA

Miriam Miranda Chamorro (Garifuna)
Miriam Miranda Chamorro (Garifuna)

Executive Director, The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH)

Honduras

Mitzi Jonelle Tan
Mitzi Jonelle Tan

Convenor, Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP), Senior Advisory, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

The Philippines

Monique Verdin (Houma Nation)
Monique Verdin (Houma Nation)

WECAN Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator in the Gulf South

Turtle Island/USA

Nalleli Cobo
Nalleli Cobo

Climate Activist & Storyteller, 2022 Goldman Prize winner, Co-founder of People not Pozos and South Central Youth Leadership Coalition

Turtle Island/USA

Natalia Greene
Natalia Greene

Global Director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)

Ecuador

Natalie Isaacs
Natalie Isaacs

Founder, One Million Women

Australia

Neema Namadamu
Neema Namadamu

Founder and Executive Director of Hero Women Rising, and WECAN Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo

Nina Simons
Nina Simons

Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers

Turtle Island/USA

Niria Alicia Garcia (Xicana)
Niria Alicia Garcia (Xicana)

Indígena community organizer, educator, storykeeper and human rights advocate, UN Young Champion of the Earth 2020, Run4Salmon Prayer

Turtle Island/USA

Noelene Nabulivou (Dravuwalu / Naceva / Kadavu)
Noelene Nabulivou (Dravuwalu / Naceva / Kadavu)

Executive Director, DIVA for Equality; Movement-Led Committee, Pacific Islands Feminist Alliance for Climate Justice (PIFA4CJ)

Fiji

Olivia Bisa Tirko (Chapra)
Olivia Bisa Tirko (Chapra)

President, Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH)

Peru

Osprey Orielle Lake
Osprey Orielle Lake

Founder and Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network

Turtle Island/USA

Panganga Pungowiyi
Panganga Pungowiyi

Climate Geoengineering Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network

Turtle Island

Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa)
Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa)

Indigenous leader from Sarayaku, Spokeswoman for Amazon Women in Defense of the Jungle, WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador

Ecuador

Patricia Madrigal Cordero
Patricia Madrigal Cordero

Former Vice Minister of the Costa Rican Environment

Costa Rica

Pema Wangmo Lama (Mugum Indigenous)
Pema Wangmo Lama (Mugum Indigenous)

Vice-Chair and Founder, WE-Women from Indigenous Nationalities (WE-WIN)

Nepal

Pluma Bárbara Moreno Torres (Jíbaro-Taino Nation)
Pluma Bárbara Moreno Torres (Jíbaro-Taino Nation)

General Coordinator, of Organización del Pueblo Indígena Can - Jíbaro de Boriké (CAN) and of Centro de Apoyo Mutuo Jíbaro de Lares (CAMJi-Lares)

Puerto Rico

Priscila Tapajowara (Tapajo)
Priscila Tapajowara (Tapajo)

President of Midia Indigena Association

Brazil

Rachel Kyte
Rachel Kyte

UK Special Representative on Climate, Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford, Dean Emerita, Tufts University

United Kingdom

Rahma Diaa
Rahma Diaa

Journalist, Founder of the Climate School Initiative

Egypt

Rauna Kuokkanen (Sápmi)
Rauna Kuokkanen (Sápmi)

Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland

Finland

Rene Ann Goodrich (Bad River Ojibwe)
Rene Ann Goodrich (Bad River Ojibwe)

Native Lives Matter Coalition and Wisconsin Department of Justice MMIW Task Force, Indigenous Women's Treaty Alliance

Turtle Island/USA

Rita Uwaka
Rita Uwaka

Environmental Rights Action (ERA) Coordinator, Forest & Biodiversity Programme, Friends of the Earth Africa (FoEA)

Nigeria

Roishetta Sibley-Ozane M.S.
Roishetta Sibley-Ozane M.S.

Founder of Vessel Project of Louisiana and Co-Coordinator of the Gulf South Fossil Finance Hub

Turtle Island/USA

Ruth Spencer
Ruth Spencer

Deputy Chair, Marine Ecosystems Protected Areas (MEPA) Trust

Antigua and Barbuda

Samaï Malaïca Gualinga (Kichwa)
Samaï Malaïca Gualinga (Kichwa)

Vice President of the Kichwa Sarayaku Indigenous People, Defender of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature

Ecuador

Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Sandrine Dixson-Declève

Honorary President of The Club of Rome & Executive Chair of Earth4All

Belgium

Sascha Gabizon
Sascha Gabizon

Executive Director, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)

Netherlands

Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé)
Secretary Puyr Tembé (Tembé)

First Secretary of State for Indigenous Peoples of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon, and Co-founder of Ancestral Indigenous Women Warriors (ANMIGA)

Brazil

Serena Mendizábal (Cayuga Wolf Clan)
Serena Mendizábal (Cayuga Wolf Clan)

Managing Director, Sacred Earth Solar

Canada

Shannon Biggs
Shannon Biggs

Co-founder, Director, Movement Rights

Turtle Island/USA

Sharon Lavigne
Sharon Lavigne

Founder and President of RISE St. James

Turtle Island/USA

Shirley Krenak (Krenak)
Shirley Krenak (Krenak)

Founder of the Shirley Djukurna Krenak Institute, Co-founder of ANMIGA

Brazil

Silvia Ribeiro
Silvia Ribeiro

Uruguayan journalist, feminist and environmental activist

Uruguay

Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek
Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek

Independent Academic Researcher

Netherlands

Siziwe Mota
Siziwe Mota

Africa Program Director, International Rivers Network

South Africa

Susana Muhamad
Susana Muhamad

Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia

Colombia

Taily Terena (Terena)
Taily Terena (Terena)

Indigenous Rights and Climate Activist

Brazil

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe)
Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe)

Tribal Attorney and Founder of Giniw Collective, Line 3 pipeline Resistance Leader

Turtle Island/USA

Tasneem Essop
Tasneem Essop

Executive Director at Climate Action International (CAN-International)

South Africa

Tetet Lauron
Tetet Lauron

Advisor for the United Nations Programme, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Philippines

Thilmeeza Hussain
Thilmeeza Hussain

Director, United Nations Regional Commissions New York Office

Maldives/USA

Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman

Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Canada

Vanessa Nakate
Vanessa Nakate

Director, Tard Foundation

Uganda

Vasser Seydel
Vasser Seydel

President, The Oxygen Project

Turtle Island/USA

Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni  MD, MPH
Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni MD, MPH

Internist and Assistant Professor of Medicine

USA/India

Vitória Pinheiro
Vitória Pinheiro

Executive Director of Palmares Action Lab, Policy Expert and Activist

Brazil

Wahleah Johns (Diné)
Wahleah Johns (Diné)

Former Director, U.S. DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, Co-Founder of Native Renewables

Turtle Island/USA

Watatakalu Yawalapiti (Xingu)
Watatakalu Yawalapiti (Xingu)

Female Leader of the Yawalapiti, member of the Women's Movement of the Xingu Indigenous Territory - (MMTIX), Director of Territorial Ethnodevelopment of ATIX and Coordinator of Political Articulation of the National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (ANMIGA)

Brazil

Wawa Gatheru
Wawa Gatheru

Climate Activist and Founder, Black Girl Environmentalist

Turtle Island/USA

Wilma Mendoza (Mosetén)
Wilma Mendoza (Mosetén)

President of the National Confederation of Indigenous Women from Bolivia (CNAMIB)

Bolivia

Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec)
Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec)

Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative

Mexico/USA

Yadira Ocaguaje (Siekopai)
Yadira Ocaguaje (Siekopai)

Leader of the Siekopai Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Ecuador

Yasso Kanti Bhattachan (Thakali)
Yasso Kanti Bhattachan (Thakali)

Vice Chair of the National Indigenous Women’s Forum (NIWF), and founding member and advisor of the National Indigenous Women's Federation (NIWF)

Nepal

Yolanda Fulmer (Tlingit)
Yolanda Fulmer (Tlingit)

Native Rights Activist, Representative for the WECAN Tongass Hub, Turtle Island/USA

Turtle Island/USA

Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbi

Co-founder, Daughters for Earth

Turtle Island/USA

Zukiswa White
Zukiswa White

Project Specialist and Social justice Consultant

South Africa

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