
GLOBAL WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
— SPEAKERS TO DATE —
More speaker announcements coming soon!

Aakaluk Adrienne Blatchford (Iñupiaq/Yupik) (she/they)
Geoengineering Outreach Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Turtle Island

Adenike Titilope Oladosu
Executive Director, I Lead Climate Action Initiative
Nigeria

Aditi Sen
Climate and Energy Program Director, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Turtle Island/USA

Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas
Head of COP30 Unit at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Brazil
Brazil

Amy Goodman
Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!
Turtle Island/USA

Amy Westervelt
Executive Editor, Drilled
Costa Rica

Antonia Juhasz
Investigative Journalist, author, lecturer, Washington, DC
Turtle Island/USA

Aya Mariyam Rahil Naseem
Marine Biologist, Co-Founder and Vice President, Maldives Coral Institute
Maldives

Ayshka Najib
Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) Just Transition Working Group, Fridays For Future MAPA, UNICEF Youth Advocates
United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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

Brianna Fruean
Climate Activist and Founder of Samoan chapter Pacific Climate Warriors
Pacific Islands/Aotearoa/New Zealand

Bridget Burns
Director of Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Turtle Island/USA

Bronwen Tucker
Global Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager, Oil Change International
Canada

Bryanna R. Brown (Inuit)
Political Advisor and Land and Water Advocate, Indigenous Climate Action
Canada

Bénédicte Larissa
Partner, ENAGRI-CI
Ivory Coast

Callie Veelenturf
Founder and Executive Director, The Leatherback Project
Panama

Cara Page
Founder of Changing Frequencies and Co-founder of the Healing Histories Project
Turtle Island/USA

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)
Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and WECAN Board Member and Project Coordinator
Turtle Island/USA

Catalina Ruiz-Navarro
Journalist and Director of Volcánicas Magazine
Mexico

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

Cindy Wiesner
Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Turtle Island/USA

Claire Charlo (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes)
Indigenous Feminisms Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
Turtle Island

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
Vision and Initiatives Partner for Taproot Earth, Lawyer and Climate Justice Activist
Turtle Island/USA

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The Commission Project
Mozambique

Daiara Tukano (Tukano de Alto Rio Negro)
Indigenous Activist and artist
Brazil

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

Dr. Jemilah Mahmood
Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health
Malaysia

Dr. Lyla June Johnston (Diné/Navajo & Tsétsêhéstâhese/Cheyenne)
Indigenous Musician, Scholar, and Community Organizer
Turtle Island

Dr. Maliha Khan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Women Deliver
Pakistan/United Kingdom

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
Network Director Africa, Global Strategic Communication Council
Kenya

Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi (Sámi)
Chair of the Sámi Parliament’s Youth Council
Norway

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation)
Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action
Canada

Erika Martínez Lizarraga
President, GoiEner
Spain

Fany Kuiru Castro (Uitoto)
General Coordinator of the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)
Colombia

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

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

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Climate, gender and economic justice expert
Colombia

Galina Angarova (Buryat)
Executive Director, SIRGE Coalition
Siberia

Gloria Majiga
Natural Resources and Sustainable Climate Finance, Tax Justice Network Africa
Malawi/USA

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
Advisory Council Chair, Our Kids Climate, USA
Turtle Island/USA

Heffa Schücking
Founder, Management & Campaign Strategist, Urgewald
Germany

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

Honorable Nusrat Hanje
Member of Parliament of Tanzania
Tanzania

Honorable Zali Steggall
Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Australia

Honourable Rosa Galvez
Canadian Senator
Canada

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
Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project
Turtle Island/USA

Janene Yazzie (Navajo/Dine’)
Director of Policy & Advocacy, NDN Collective
Diné Bikéyah (Turtle Island)

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

Judy Kipkenda (Ogiek)
Founder of Koibatek Ogiek Women and Youth Network (KOWYN)
Kenya

Julia Horinek (Ponca Nation)
WECAN Project Coordinator, Plains Organizer with Movement Rights
Turtle Island/USA

Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi)
Co-Executive Director, Women's Earth Alliance (WEA)
Hawaii, Turtle Island/USA

Karabo Mokgonyana
Renewable Energy Campaigner, Power Shift Africa
South Africa

Klelia Guerrero García
Tax and Gender Justice Specialist, Latin American and for the Caribbean Network for Social, Economic and Environmental Justice
Ecuador

Laura Cook
Special Projects Lead, Project Dandelion
United Kingdom

Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director, Amazon Watch
Turtle Island/USA

Lorraine Chiponda
Advisor, Africa Common Transitions Agenda (ACTA), Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

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)
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
Campaign Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Turtle Island/USA

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

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
Policy Director, Global Forest Coalition
Bolivia

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

Meena Raman
Head of Programmes, Third World Network
Malaysia

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

Michelle Cook (Diné)
Founder, Divest Invest Protect
Turtle Island/USA

Miriam Miranda Chamorro (Garifuna)
Executive Director, The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH)
Honduras

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

Monique Verdin (Houma Nation)
WECAN Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator in the Gulf South
Turtle Island/USA

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

Natalie Isaacs
Founder, One Million Women
Australia

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
Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers
Turtle Island/USA

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

Olivia Bisa Tirko (Chapra)
President, Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH)
Peru

Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
Turtle Island/USA

Panganga Pungowiyi
Climate Geoengineering Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
Turtle Island

Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa)
Indigenous leader from Sarayaku, Spokeswoman for Amazon Women in Defense of the Jungle, WECAN Coordinator in Ecuador
Ecuador

Patricia Madrigal Cordero
Former Vice Minister of the Costa Rican Environment
Costa Rica

Pema Wangmo Lama (Mugum Indigenous)
Vice-Chair and Founder, WE-Women from Indigenous Nationalities (WE-WIN)
Nepal

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)
President of Midia Indigena Association
Brazil

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

Rahma Diaa
Journalist, Founder of the Climate School Initiative
Egypt

Rauna Kuokkanen (Sápmi)
Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland
Finland

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

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
Deputy Chair, Marine Ecosystems Protected Areas (MEPA) Trust
Antigua and Barbuda

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

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

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)
Managing Director, Sacred Earth Solar
Canada

Shannon Biggs
Co-founder, Director, Movement Rights
Turtle Island/USA

Sharon Lavigne
Founder and President of RISE St. James
Turtle Island/USA

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

Silvia Ribeiro
Uruguayan journalist, feminist and environmental activist
Uruguay

Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek
Independent Academic Researcher
Netherlands

Siziwe Mota
Africa Program Director, International Rivers Network
South Africa

Susana Muhamad
Former Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia
Colombia

Taily Terena (Terena)
Indigenous Rights and Climate Activist
Brazil

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe)
Tribal Attorney and Founder of Giniw Collective, Line 3 pipeline Resistance Leader
Turtle Island/USA

Tasneem Essop
Executive Director at Climate Action International (CAN-International)
South Africa

Tetet Lauron
Advisor for the United Nations Programme, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Philippines

Thilmeeza Hussain
Director, United Nations Regional Commissions New York Office
Maldives/USA

Tzeporah Berman
Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Canada

Vanessa Nakate
Director, Tard Foundation
Uganda

Vasser Seydel
President, The Oxygen Project
Turtle Island/USA

Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni MD, MPH
Internist and Assistant Professor of Medicine
USA/India

Vitória Pinheiro
Executive Director of Palmares Action Lab, Policy Expert and Activist
Brazil

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)
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
Climate Activist and Founder, Black Girl Environmentalist
Turtle Island/USA

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

Xiye Bastida (Otomi-Toltec)
Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative
Mexico/USA

Yadira Ocaguaje (Siekopai)
Leader of the Siekopai Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Ecuador

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

Zainab Salbi
Co-founder, Daughters for Earth
Turtle Island/USA

Zukiswa White
Project Specialist and Social justice Consultant
South Africa
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