Ruth Łchavaya K’isen Miller she/her,they/them

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Climate Justice Director
Native Movement

Participant: 2020 US Accelerator

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North America

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Anchorage, Alaska

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United States

Tribal Affiliation

Dena'ina Athabaskan

Affiliations & Roles

Statewide Planning Committee, Fireweed Collective; Member, SustainUS

Ruth Łchavaya K’isen Miller she/her,they/them

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Climate Justice Director
Native Movement

Participant: 2020 US Accelerator

Elevating voices, and building networks for local, national, and international climate solutions in Alaska.

Ruth (Łchavaya K’isen) is a Dena’ina Athabaskan and Ashkenazi Russian Jewish woman, raised in Dgheyay Kaq (Anchorage), Alaska. She is a member of the Curyung Tribe from the Lake Clark region, and also has roots in Bristol Bay. She graduated from Brown University, built on occupied Wampanoag and Narragansett lands, and received a BA in Critical Development Studies with a focus on Indigenous resistance and liberation. Ruth was the Climate Justice Director for Native Movement, a matriarchal grassroots Indigenous organization that fights for the rights of Indigenous peoples, our lands and waters, and justice for our ancestors and descendants. She has worked many years towards climate justice and a regenerative economy for all on her lands and beyond, her work also includes international advocacy, including attending the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the UN Youth Climate Summit, COP25 in Madrid, Spain, and the Continental Gathering of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA). She is a daughter, a granddaughter, and aunty, a language learner, a traditional beadworker, and a subsistence fisherwomxn.