Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning advocate, writer, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. As the host of the chart-topping podcast “This Land,” Nagle told the story of one Supreme Court case about tribal land in Oklahoma, the small-town murder that started it, and the surprising connection to her own family history. Season two of “This Land” is ”a timely exposé about how the far right is using Native children to quietly dismantle American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda”. In addition to being an outspoken advocate for advancing Native rights and Native representation, Nagle lends her voice to fighting violence against women. With her years of organizing and advocacy work, Nagle empowers her audiences to build community advocacy movements that are diverse and inclusive. In 2016, Nagle was named one of the National Center American Indian Enterprise Development’s "Native American 40 Under 40" for her work to support survivors and advocate for policy change to address the crisis of violence against Native women. Her writing about Native representation and tribal sovereignty has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Teen Vogue, The Huffington Post, and more.

Sarah Deer (J.D., University of Kansas) is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and a professor at the University of Kansas, where she has a dual appointment in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of Federal Indian law and feminism, with a focus on violence against Native women. Her 2015 book, The Beginning and End of Rape, has received several awards, including the best first book award from the Native American Indigenous Studies Association. She also serves as the Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals and has testified in four Congressional hearings. Deer is a co-author of four textbooks on tribal law and has been published in a wide variety of law journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Democracy Now, MSNBC, NPR.

Mary Kathryn Nagle (citizen, Cherokee Nation) is an attorney/playwright working to restore and preserve tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. Nagle graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School and subsequently clerked on both the federal district court and United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a former Partner at Pipestem and Nagle Law PC, she has filed briefs in the United States Supreme Court that advocate for safety for Native women from domestic violence and sexual assault. She is counsel to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and represents families of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. Her plays have been featured at theaters across the United States. She has received commissions from Arena Stage (Washington DC), Rose Theater (Omaha, NE), and Portalnd Center Stage (Portland, OR). Nagle’s media appearances include MSNBC, MoveOn, Slate, Al Jazeera, and more.

Charon Asetoyer (Comanche), a Native American women's health activist, holds a Masters of International Administration and Management. She is the CEO and Founder of the Native American Community Board (1985) and the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (1988) on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The Resource Center addresses issues of reproductive justice, violence against women, and environmental justice. In addition to the Resource Center the organization has a shelter for women fleeing from sexual assault and domestic violence. Asetoyer was appointed and confirmed by the President of the United States (Clinton Administration) to serve on the National Advisory Council for Health and Human Services (HHS). Asetoyer is well known as a public and private servant of Indigenous Peoples on both local and national levels. Under Charon's direction her organization released the The Indigenous Women's Health Book - Within the Sacred Circle, the first Indigenous women’s reproductive health book. She organized the first Indigenous women's reproductive rights coalition and continues to organize Indigenous women to protect our health and reproductive rights at the National and International level. Media includes: U.S. News and World, Indian Country Today, The New York Times, ColorLines, Jezebel, CNN.

Gwen Leaffe Carr is an award winning artist, musician, singer, writer, storyteller advocate and activist on American Indian and Social Justice issues. Gwen is an enrolled member of the Cayuga Nation of New York, Heron Clan. She is currently serving as the executive director of the Carlisle Indian School Project, which honors the students of the first government-run boarding school for Native Americans. Gwen is the founder of the Wisconsin American Indian Democratic Caucus. She has turned out the greatest number of American Indian voters in the history of Wisconsin. Her political expertise has successfully elected numerous officials locally and nationally. Gwen is a tireless advocate for social justice and American Indians in particular. She has also had over 30 years of experience in working with American Indian Tribes. Some of her achievements include; working in Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House in the Clinton Administration and being the first National Political Director for American Indians at the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. Gwen also served as the Deputy Secretary for the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. Extensive media experience.

Seánna Howard teaches courses in International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples and is the Director of the International Human Rights Advocacy Workshop. Professor Howard has been a staff attorney and professor with the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program since 2006. She has represented indigenous communities before the Inter-American and United Nations human rights systems, including the Western Shoshone, the Chiricahua Apache, the Navajo Nation and the Water Protectors Legal Collective in the US; the Maya of Belize; and the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group of Canada. Since the Fall of 2020, Professor Howard has served as External Advisor for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Professor Howard's previous legal experience includes working for the Canadian Lawyers Association for International Human Rights in South Africa, the Attorney General of Ontario -Office of the Children's Lawyer and the Children's Aid Society of Hamilton-Wentworth. Media includes: Ladysmith Chronicle, Arizona Native Net, Elko Daily Free Press.

Lael Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) represents tribes and tribal organizations across the United States. She leads the tribal advocacy group MThirtySix and is General Counsel for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). After serving as in-house counsel for a tribe and its economic enterprises, Lael moved to Washington, D.C. to take a position as Legislative Director for the Native American Contractors Association and Counselor to the Chairwoman of the National Indian Gaming Commission. Lael provided advice on tribal internal governance issues and economic development activities and strategic policy analysis on national tribal legislative and regulatory proposals. Lael is a past-president of both the National Native American Bar Association and the Northwest Indian Bar Association. Media includes: Indian Country, Boston Herald, WMC Live with Robin Morgan.

Professor Marcia Ann Zug teaches Family Law, Advanced Family Law, and American Indian law. Professor Zug’s research focuses on the intersection of family law and immigration law and she recently published a book entitled Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches. In addition, her articles “Separation, Deportation, Termination” and “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” which exposed the growing practice of separating fit immigrant parents from their American citizen children, garnered national attention. She has also advised national organizations such as The Women’s Refugee Commission, The National Indian Child Welfare Association and The Southern Poverty Law Center on the legal issues facing Native American and immigrant families. She has published numerous articles on family law, immigration law and policy, and American Indian Law. Media includes: Associated Press, The Guardian, BBC, CNN.

Kate R. Finn is Executive Director of First Peoples Worldwide. Her expertise concerns articulating how the impacts of development in Indigenous communities must be addressed at all levels of business and investment in order to strengthen Native economies and communities for generations. Prior to her directorship, she served as Staff Attorney for First Peoples. Finn served as the inaugural American Indian Law Program Fellow at the University of Colorado Law School where she worked directly with Native American tribes and Indigenous Peoples globally. Finn's areas of focus and research expertise include Indigenous Peoples law and policy, federal Indian law, preventing violence against women, victim services, and business and human rights. She has co-authored several articles on the intersection of resource development and violence against women in Native communities. At First Peoples Worldwide, Finn leads the organization to deploy the tools and strategies of shareholder advocacy to ensure corporate accountability to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Finn is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. Media includes: The Washington Post, Denver Post, CNN.

Dr. Cristina L. Azocar is a citizen of the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe and a Professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University. She is the author of News Media and the Indigenous Fight for Federal Recognition, which examines how past coverage has prioritized gaming over sovereignty and interfered in Tribes’ ability to be federally recognized. Dr. Azocar is the Faculty Coordinator of the Presidential Scholars Program, the most prestigious scholarship offered at SF State, and is the faculty advisor to the Student Kouncil of Intertribal Nations (SKINS). Her research focuses on the intersection of race and journalistic practice, particularly in the area of news coverage of Indigenous people. Dr. Azocar served as a past president of the Native American Journalists Association, directed the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism for 10 years, was a former editor of American Indian Issues for the Media Diversity Forum, and was an inaugural board member of the Women’s Media Center. Extensive media experience.

Rebecca Adamson, an Indigenous Economist of Cherokee Descent, is Founder of First Nations Development and First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist, and ground-breaking indigenous woman, Rebecca holds a distinct perspective about how indigenous people’s systems thinking and the value system behind indigenous economies can be used to catalyze change. Rebecca has worked directly with grassroots indigenous communities, and internationally as an advocate of Indigenous self-determination since 1970. Her first five years at the Coalition of Indian Controlled Schools were spent in and out of jail until the Indian Self Determination and Education Act was passed in 1975 making Indian self-determination legal. Extensive media experience.

Amanda Clinton is the owner and principal of A.R. Clinton: Communications, Content and Strategies. For nearly 15 years, she oversaw external communications for the Cherokee Nation and its corporate arm, Cherokee Nation Businesses. Prior to that, she worked as a television news producer in Oklahoma and Kansas. She created and was a producer for the first all-Native American directed and produced docuseries, “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People,” which highlights tribal culture, history, heritage and language. In 2019, she launched the Cherokee Nation Film Office, the first AFCI-accredited tribal film office in the United States. Clinton is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation and her passions and areas of expertise include combating issues that adversely affect Indigenous people and communities, increasing female and Indigenous representation in film and television, protecting and advancing women’s rights, fighting climate change and protecting rural communities from factory and industrial farming. Media includes: Tulsa World, HuffPost, Native Business Magazine, The Mercury News, CBS.

Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) is a Native scholar, writer, and blogger and is passionate about reframing how the world sees contemporary Native cultures. She is the creator and author of Native Appropriations, a blog discussing cultural appropriation and stereotypes of Native peoples in fashion, film, music, and other forms of pop culture. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Through her writing and activism, Keene questions and problematizes the ways Indigenous peoples are represented, asking for celebrities, large corporations, and designers to consider the ways they incorporate "Native" elements into their work. She is very interested in the way Native peoples are using social and new media to challenge misrepresentations and present counter-narratives that showcase true Native cultures and identities. Media includes: The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, CNN.