Walter Richard "Rick" West Jr. (Cheyenne and Arapaho) is currently President Emeritus of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. He was the founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, retiring from the position in 2007. He is also a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne. Phoebe Mills Farris, Ph.D.
By Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Pamunkey)
By Danny Beaton (Mohawk)
In Memory of Alicja Rozanska
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
By Jerome Gerald Kujur (Oraon) and Isha Savani
Mrinalini Rai (Rai) is Director of Women4Biodiversity and a women’s rights and environmental justice advocate. Mrinalini specializes in policy, advocacy, and research on biodiversity and gender and has worked for several years in advocating for the rights of Indigenous Peoples’ and women and youth in various local to global environmental-related dialogues and processes. She strongly believes in the ground-level up movement and the strength of communities’ lived experiences and voices. She has worked for many years in supporting community-led conservation initiatives in the global South and sees the need for enhancing synergies among multilateral environment agreements and other environmental-related processes and policies. She supports and advocates for the full, effective, and meaningful participation of women and believes they are not only key rights-holders but are also key agents of change for a transformative and just society. Mrinalini holds a Masters degree in Arts in Social Science and Sustainable Development (MASS), Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
