Tara Houska

Tribal Attorney and co-founder, Giniw Collective

Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe) is a tribal attorney, co-founder of the Giniw Collective, former Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She spent six months on the frontlines fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and is currently engaged in the movement to defund fossil fuels and a years-long struggle against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline. She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a non-profit committed to eradicating Native stereotyping.