Women's Earth Alliance : Leader Profiles

Leader Profiles

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Ms. Anastasia Pinto: Imphal, India
Anna Pinto has worked for over 18 years in Bihar, Manipur and the North East Region in India mobilizing around women’s and children’s rights, and community rights and responsibilities in sustainable management of water and land. Anna has written a number of papers and has developed innovative methods for raising community awareness through audio-visual and interactive media and skill building trainings.

Dana Ishaq Fathi Rassas: Jordan
Dana Ishaq Fathi Rassas is a student at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, an institute established in 1974 to carry out basic and applied research in Desert Science. Dana is researching the environmental impact of seawater desalination on agriculture, Israel as a study case.

Arshinder Kaur: Punjab, India
Arshinder Kaur has worked on the academic level to the grassroots to enhance her community’s understanding of environmental sustainability. She has organized and coordinated schools with Navdanya on themes of ‘Organic food & Culture’, Gandhi and Non Violence, Soil as a living system, Water democracy and Third International Conference on Water and Women 2005.

Devorah Brous: Jerusalem, Israel
Devorah Brous is the founder/director of Bustan, an Israeli environmental justice concerned with distributing resources in an equitable and sustainable way throughout Israel. Devorah works in the field establishing connections with historically disenfranchised communities (particularly the Bedouin) and bringing them on as partners in the work of Bustan, as well as advocating for them in public arenas. She is on the board of various projects and think tanks, and is called upon for her expertise and personal connections in the Bedouin community.

"Offie" Maria Cleofe Bernardino: Puerto Princesa City, Philippines
Offie is the Executive Director of a province-based network of NGOs, Palawan NGO Network. She is very active in environmental protection and engages in policy discussions with local political leaders and organizes campaigns, marches, rallies and small enterprise support activities.

Martha Isabel “Pati” Ruiz Corzo: Jalpan, Mexico
Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo is a recognized leader for building a bottom-up civil conservation movement in central Mexico. Located in the Sierra Gorda mountains, Pati and her husband began organizing concerned citizens for a regional rescue program based on environmental education, economic development, forestry management, and community development specifically directed to women who are the heads of household in the rural extreme poverty communities due to high rates of migration of working age men to the USA.

Dr. Mercy Palatty: Tamil Nadu, India
Dr. Mercy Palatty is the President of an organization that has organized more than 7,000 neighbourhood parliaments of about 30 neighbouring families each in one district. These neighbourhood forums carry out various awareness and action programs, such as the collection of 100,000 signatures for a safe water campaign.

Lucy Mulenkei: Nairobi, Kenya
Lucy Mulenkei is a Maasai from Kenya who coordinates the African Indigenous Women’s Organization, which trains and strengthens capacity among indigenous rural Nomadic Pastoralist and Hunter Gatherers on environment and sustainable development with a main focus on Biodiversity conservation and traditional knowledge. Lucy has worked with more than 100 different grassroots organizations in East Africa. She also chairs the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network.

Gemma Bulos: Palawan, Philippines and U.S.
Gemma has traveled around the world and mobilized over 100 cities in over 60 countries to join this global peace movement, The Million Voice Choir. Her organization, a Single Drop (ASD) mobilizes the Million Voice Choir to promote social action specifically around water issues and encourage environmental stewardship to cultivate peace. The Million Voice Choir’s purpose bridges cultures worldwide, creating a worldwide experience for people to see and feel the magnitude of a simple action as it's effects ripple outward.

Elouise Brown: Navajo Nation
Elouise Brown, a leader in DDR, believes that economic development must not come at the expense of the health of our children, the air we breathe, our sacred land and water, and our way of life. With her work she aims to protect and preserve the natural state of Harmony and Beauty against corporate intrusion and environmental injustices.

Ofelia Rivas: Tohono O’odham Nation
“There is a word for our way of life: Himdag,” says Ofelia Rivas, leader in the O’odham Solidarity Project. “Our way of life is based on the land and living in harmony with the land. All of this has been violated and there has been a tremendous imbalance even within our own people.”

Enie Begaye, Dine & Tohono O'odham Nations
Enei Begaye of the Dine (Navajo) & Tohono O'odham nations, is currently the Executive Director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition. She is a speaker, writer and organizer around issues of environment, youth, and indigenous rights.

Lori Riddle: Akimel O’Otham Nation
Gila River Indian Community tribal members, led by Lori Riddle, launched a campaign to evict the incinerator from tribal lands in 2002 after learning about the toxic emissions from the facility. Located at the tribe's Lone Butte Industrial Park on the reservation near Chandler, Arizona, the incinerator emitted dioxin, mercury and many other toxic chemicals.

Julie Fischel: Western Shoshone Nation
Julie Fischel, attorney for the Western Shoshone Defense Project questions whether the real impetus for the U.S. government's raids on the Danns is because the area from which the animals were removed "sits atop one of the largest gold finds in the history of the United States."

Lori Goodman: Dine Nation
Dine Citizens Against Ruining our Environment (Dine CARE) was founded in 1988 to resist the construction of a toxic waste site in the southwest corner of the Navajo Nation. Lori Goodman has been an integral part of Dine CARE since its inception. This first campaign was a success: through community organizing, education, and protest, Dine CARE warded off the proposed site. A similar victory was attained in 1991, when the organization prevented the construction of an asbestos dump on Navajo land in New Mexico.

Veronica Eady: Brooklyn, NY
Veronica is a Senior Staff Attorney for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, serving as project manager for the Environmental Justice and Community Development Project.

Deeohn Ferris: Washington, DC
Deeohn Ferris is President/CEO of the Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc. a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to metropolitan sustainability, environmental health, smart growth and regional equity. Ferris is an environmental attorney whose interdisciplinary career spans government, industry and public interest.

Davida Finger: New Orleans
Davida Finger, a New Orleans native, is working as the Louisiana State Coordinator for Oxfam America's Gulf Coast Emergency Response. She is leading policy and advocacy efforts throughout hurricane affected areas in southern Louisiana.

Megan Walline, Washington DC
Megan is a water law attorney at the Department of the Interior, where she works on issues related to western water rights, water allocation, and agency compliance with the ESA and the Clean Water Act. In addition to litigation responsibilities, she advises agencies on water-related projects to benefit listed species. She currently is working on a project that will remove Chiloquin Dam in Oregon to improve habitat for endangered fish species in the Klamath Basin.

Elouise Brown, a leader in DDR, believes that economic development must not come at the expense of the health of our children, the air we breathe, our sacred land and water, and our way of life. With her work she aims to protect and preserve the natural state of Harmony and Beauty against corporate intrusion and environmental injustices.

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