Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck is the co-founder of Seven Directions of Service with her husband. She is a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in Burlington, NC. She is the Chair of the Environmental Justice Committee for the NAACP and  a board member of the Haw River Assembly. Crystal received Doctorate at the University of Dayton and dissertation on Social Justice of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Gas/Oil Pipelines in frontline communities. Crystal is also an expert in her field of Strategic Intelligence, Political Campaigns, and Public Administration. She has conducted training along and around the East Coast on Coordinated Tribal/Community Response for emergency management, through natural, cyber, or man-made disasters.

Juliette A. Jackson grew up in Northern California, and is a member of the Klamath Tribes. She received her B.A in Political Science; Public Law from the University of California, a J.D from American University, Washington College of Law, and recently completed her Master of Laws (LLM) in Energy & Environmental Law focused on Indigenous Rights at The George Washington University Law School. Presently Ms. Jackson works at Patterson EarnHeart Real Bird & Wilson LLP, Native Law Group, a firm focused exclusively on Federal Indian Law and Tribal Law matters. Over the course of her career, she has worked on public health policy matters, and tribal environmental justice issues at various non-profit organizations and government agencies. Most notably, during her Clerkship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency she assisted with drafting a proposed national policy on Sustainability and drafted the section on Indigenous Knowledge. She recently completed her Master’s Thesis which recommends Rights of Nature  legal solutions that could help save her Tribe’s sacred fish from extinction.