Renee Gurneau is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. As an educator and former Tribal College President, she is a firm believer that Native people have the right and responsibility to direct their own empowered educational experience. She has expertise in developing programs and agencies, and in conducting evaluations and analysis from an Anishinaabe cultural perspective. She has designed, directed, implemented and evaluated many community-based programs both on reservations and in urban areas, including chemical dependency programs, youth programs, environmental programs, culture-based wellness initiatives, restorative justice, Indigenous Conflict Resolution, and Native family therapy programs. She is coauthor, with Lea Foushee, of Sacred Water: Water for Life, a seminal work on Anishinaabe relationship to water. She is a former Kellogg Fellow in the Kellogg National Leadership Program. https://ias.umn.edu/programs/public-scholarship/mespac/duluth

Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), the oldest Indigenous-based and grassroots network working on environmental, energy, climate, and economic justice issues in North America including the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Tom has been the lead of the Indigenous delegation of IEN within the UN Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since COP 04 in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1998. https://www.ienearth.org/contact-us/