Janene Yazzie (Diné), Red Natural History Fellow
Janene is an internationally known Indigenous Rights and human rights advocate, and a longtime community organizer from the Navajo Nation. With a background in International Politics and Human Rights she has 19 years of experience working on the intersections of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Climate Change, Water Sovereignty, Food Sovereignty, Sustainable Development, Renewable Energy, and protection of Human Rights defenders. She is currently the North America (United States and Canada) representative to the Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP), a constituted body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She also serves as the co-chair of the UNFCCC. Janene currently works as a consultant on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights with a focus on food systems sovereignty and developing political education tools addressing the nexus of Climate Change, Militarism, AI, and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights.