Water Protection Speaker Series: Episode 4

Join the organization Tuesday, April 8 for Episode 4 of their Water Protection Speaker Series!

Episode 4: April 8 | 12pm
Finding Your Voice: How to Take Action

Register at: tinyurl.com/WP-SpeakerSeries-Register

Speakers:

Margo Robbins comes from the traditional Yurok village of Morek, and is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Cultural Fire Management Council, co-lead of the Indigenous Peoples Burn Network, and board member for the Indigenous Stewardship Network. She graduated from Humboldt State University and resides on the Yurok reservation in far northern California. She gathers and prepares traditional food and medicine, is a cultural fire practitioner, a basket weaver, regalia maker, a mom, and a grandma.

Danielle Frank is a Hupa tribal member and Yurok descendant. Born during the beginning of a 20-year resistance to Undam the Klamath River, Danielle grew up learning from strong Indigenous activists. In high school Frank helped create the Hoopa Valley High School Water protectors club and participated in the creation of Save California Salmon’s Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California curriculum and was their first Youth Coordinator. In 2022, Danielle accepted the title of Miss Na:tini-xwe’ from the Hoopa Tribe. Frank is currently working as the native youth coordinator for Native Americans in Philanthropy, and as Director of Development and Community Relations for Rios to Rivers.