Sherri Mitchell -Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, is an Indigenous attorney, activist,

and author from the Penobscot Nation. She received her Juris Doctorate from

the University of Arizona’s Roger’s College of Law, specializing in Indigenous

Peoples Law and Policy. She is an alumna of the American Indian Ambassador

Program, and the Udall Native American Congressional Internship Program.

Sherri is the author of the award-winning book, Sacred Instructions;

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change, which has been published

in four languages. She is also a contributor to more than a dozen anthologies,

including the best seller, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the

Climate Crisis, Resetting Our Future: Empowering Climate Action in the United

States, and My life: Growing Up Native in America.

Sherri is the founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation. Her work

includes curating an eight-part series with the Global Council on Science and

the Environment that provided training for thousands of scientists and

scientific scholars from more than 40 countries, highlighting Indigenous

scholarship and traditional knowledge. She was also a key member of the

development team for the ACE Mandate of the U.N. Framework Convention on

Climate Change (UNFCCC), helping draft a plan to meet the requirements of

Article 6 of the UNFCCC and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement for the United

States.

Sherri serves as a Trustee for the American Indian Institute, and she sits on

both the Global Indigenous Advisory Council and the North American

Advisory Council for Nia Tero’s Indigenous Land Guardianship Program. She

is also a board member of the Post Carbon Institute and a visionary council

member of The Emergence Network.

Sherri is the recipient of several human rights awards, including the Mahoney

Dunn International Human Rights and Humanitarian Award and the

University of Maine Alumni International Human Rights Award, and her

portrait is featured in the esteemed portrait series - American’s Who Tell the

Truth. And, she is the convener of the global healing ceremony, Healing the

Wounds of Turtle Island, a gathering that has brought more than fifty-thousand

people together from six continents, with elders from 40 Indigenous nations,

to focus on healing our relationships with one another and with our relatives

in the natural world.