Indigenous Environmental Network

IEN Staff & Board

PO Box 485
Bemidji, MN 56619
Tel: (218) 751-4967

Tom Goldtooth (Dine' and Dakota), Executive Director – oversees the work of IEN and assists IEN staff in policy work around environmental protection, environmental justice, climate justice, energy, toxics, water, globalization and trade, and sustainable development.
ien@igc.org

Kandi Mossett (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Organizer – works on tribal colleges throughout the upper plains and western great lakes to support the development and sustainment of initiatives to reduce tribal colleges’ contribution to climate change.
iencampusclimate@igc.org

Simone Senogles (Ojibwe), Development Coordinator – oversees fundraising for IEN.
simone@ienearth.org

Marty Cobenais (Ojibwe), Office Manager – nuts and bolts.
martyc@ienearth.org

Field Offices:

Jihan Gearon (Dine’), Native Energy Organizer – works to build the capacity of tribal communities to protect themselves from unsustainable energy policies and developments including oil and gas, coal bed methane, nuclear, large scale hydro, and large scale geothermal. Also works on climate justice issues.

PO Box 2696
Flagstaff, AZ 86003
Tel: (928) 214-8301
ienenergy@igc.org

Faith Gemmill (Pit River/ Wintu and Neets'aii Gwich'in Athabascan), REDOIL Outreach Coordinator – coordinates the work of the Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL) Network, which addresses impacts of the fossil fuel industry on Alaska Native sovereignty and self-determination, subsistence, human and ecological health and climate change.

PO Box 74667
Fairbanks, AK 99707
Tel: (907) 750-0188
redoil1@acsalaska.net

Shawna Larson (Athabascan), Environmental Justice Organizer with Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) and IEN Partnership – works with Alaska tribal villages on environmental justice issues within Alaska, focusing on persistent organic pollutants and bioaccumulative toxics, military toxics, mining, pesticides, municipal solid waste disposal issues, and environmental health.

135 Christensen Drive
Anchorage, AK 99501
Tel: (907) 222-7714
shawna@akaction.net

Clayton Thomas-Muller Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign - Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. He has been on the front lines of stopping industrial society's assault on Indigenous Peoples lands to extract resources and to dump toxic wastes. Based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive movement for Energy and Climate Justice. Recognized by Utne Magazine as one of the top 30 under 30 activists in the United States and as a “Climate Hero” 2009 by Yes Magazine, Clayton is the tar sands campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots indigenous communities to defend against the sprawling infrastructure that includes pipelines, refineries and extraction associated with the tar sands, the largest and most destructive industrial development in the history of mankind.

294 Guigues Ave.
Ottawa Ontario K1N 9H8
Canada
Ph: (218) 760 6632
Email: ienoil@igc.org

Board of Directors

Manual Pino (Acoma Pueblo) – Manny is a founding member of Laguna-Acoma for a Safe Environment, a community-based, tribal organization working on uranium contamination issues in Pueblo communities in New Mexico. He is also an instructor in and Director of the Tribal Development Program at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona.

Bineshi Albert (Euchee and Ojibwe) – Bineshi is a founding member of the IEN Youth Program, and currently serves as the Northwest/West Field Organizer for Center for Community Change, which aims to establish and develop community organizations across the country, bring attention to major national issues related to poverty, and help insure that government programs are responsive to community needs.

Sayo': kla Kindness (Oneida) – Sayo’kla is the former Mining Campaign Organizer for IEN.