Chris Caldwell is an enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. He has over 25 years of technical, administrative, and leadership experience working for various Menominee Tribal institutions and federal agencies dedicated to sustainable forestry and natural resources management. His education includes degrees from College of Menominee Nation (AAS 2001), UW Madison (B.S. 2004), and UW Green Bay (M.S. 2014). From 2012-2020 he served as Director of the Sustainable Development Institute at the College of Menominee Nation where he led applied research, education and outreach projects centered on indigenous sustainability.​ Starting in February 2020 Chris became the interim president for the College of Menominee Nation and on June 25, 2021 became the official president for the College.

Jen Youngblood, is Mvskoke Creek and was raised in her Mothers traditions. Jen was born in California and raised at the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) Reservation. The CRIT Reservation spans the Colorado River between Arizona and California, located in the desert of the Southwest near Parker, Arizona.

Jen is currently the USDA Forest Services’ Eastern Region Tribal Relations Special Assistant and has worked as Liaison to the College of Menominee Nation. Jen works frequently with other USDA and external federal agencies helping to ensure that agencies fulfill their trust and treaty responsibilities and recognize situations that require Government-to-Government consultation, notifying Tribes of these opportunities.

Kim Stone served as Policy Analyst and Climate Change Program Coordinator at the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC).

Kim coordinated the implementation of GLIFWC’s climate change program activities, provided legal and policy leadership in analyzing a variety of climate change initiatives and their impacts on treaty resources. As part of this role, Kim worked with with federal, state, and tribal staff on climate change activities and policies. She also created and disseminated materials on GLIFWC, climate change, and treaty rights.

Prior to assuming her role as Policy Analyst, Kim edited and assisted in the production of GLIFWC's comprehensive mining document, "Metallic Mineral Mining: The Process and the Price," including authoring the legal section.

Hilarie was the climate specialist with the 1854 Treaty Authority governed by the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Hilarie’s role was to implement 1854 Ceded Territory Climate Change Adaptation Plan completed in 2016 through collaboration with Bois Forte, Grand Portage and Fond du Lac.

Prior to joining the 1854 Treaty Authority, Hilarie worked with Minnesota Sea Grant as the climate change extension educator. Her education background includes a BA in International Studies and Spanish from University of Minnesota Duluth, a Master’s in Environmental Studies from Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada, and a Master’s in Marine Biology from University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.

Hilarie grew up in Chicago and currently lives in Duluth where she spends most of her time on, in, and around Lake Superior.

Thomas Kenote Jr. is a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and a descendant of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. He was the Director of the Sustainable Development Institute at the College of Menominee Nation.

Kenote holds degrees in Environmental Policy (B.A.) from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and a M.S. in Forest Ecology from the University of Minnesota. Kenote’s research is based in exploring the impacts of climate change on the phenology of forest understory plants on the Menominee Indian reservation.

His research interests include tribal natural resources, tribal forestry, Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous phenology, climate change adaptation and mitigation, tribal capacity building.

When Thomas is not working, he enjoys the outdoors, hiking, playing traditional lax and spending time with his family and 2 dogs, Gigi and Cante. ​

Tansey Moore is a member of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony located in Northern Nevada. She is Western Shoshone, Northern Paiute and Navajo.

She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Fort Lewis College and her Masters of Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. Tansey has approximately 18 years of work experience with tribal governments. She has worked in various fields such as environmental, natural resources, cultural resources and sustainability.

She served as the Climate Change Specialist for the 1854 Treaty Authority. She helped implement the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan, which is the foundation for the 1854 Treaty Authority Climate Change Program. Her work included conducting outreach and education on climate change impacts to natural resources. She developed and implemented projects to assess impacts of climate change in the 1854 Ceded Territory. She also engaged with other federal, state, and tribal management entities to expand partnership efforts.

Gregory J. Gauthier Jr. was the Tribal College and University (TCU) AmeriCorps Tribal Resilience VISTA at the College of Menominee Nation - Sustainable Development Institute(CMN-SDI). Gregory is a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and is a descendent of the Ho-Chunk and Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.

Gregory received his B.S. in Environmental Science at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he worked as the American Indian Student Services Coordinator upon graduation.

Gregory’s focus was on community climate change planning efforts for the Menominee Nation, collaborative work with larger national partnerships with CMN-SDI, and working with other Tribes in the Northeast Region on climate change.

Gregory developed partnerships with Brown University’s Climate and Development Hub to help initiate energy sovereignty initiatives throughout Indian Country, UW-Madison Nelson Institute on Climate Change and Community Engagement trainings, and other potential partnerships to help tribes become more climate resilient.

​His interest are to better understand climate change and the role of natural resources in the economy, in order to develop more sustainable methods and technologies of managing resources for future generations.

Lisa Brooks is an Abenaki writer and scholar who lives and works in the Kwinitekw (Connecticut River) Valley. She is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College and is active in the Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, which she chaired from 2013-2017.

She has sustained a longstanding commitment to Indigenous environmental issues and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. While an undergraduate at Goddard College, Brooks worked in the tribal office of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi, on aboriginal rights and land preservation cases; this was the place she received her most important education—on the land and at kitchen tables, with other Abenaki community members.

Her first book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press 2008), received the Media Ecology Association's Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture in 2011. She recently published her second book, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, which centers Indigenous histories and environments. With her sister, environmental studies scholar Cassandra Brooks, she published “The Reciprocity Principle and ITEK: Understanding the Significance of Indigenous Protest on the Presumpscot,” in the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies in 2010. She has also published articles in Northeastern Naturalist, Studies in American Indian Literatures, William and Mary Quarterly, and American Literary History. Brooks served on the inaugural Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) and has long served on the Advisory Board of Gedakina, a non-profit organization focused on Indigenous cultural revitalization, traditional ecological knowledge, and community wellness in New England.

Although rooted in her Abenaki homeland, Brooks’s scholarship has been widely influential in transnational networks. She co-authored the collaborative volume, Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (2008), and wrote the “Afterword” for American Indian Literary Nationalism (2006). She served on the inaugural Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), and currently serves on the Editorial Board of Studies in American Indian Literatures and Ethnohistory, as well as the Advisory Board of Gedakina, a non-profit organization focused on Indigenous cultural revitalization, educational outreach, and community wellness in New England. Brooks’s most recent project is The Queen’s Right, the Printer’s Revolt, and the Place of Peace, a book that reframes the historical landscape of “the first Indian War,” more widely known as King Philip’s War (forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2017).