Our Governance

Centred on weaving our diverse Indigenous knowledges and rights first and foremost.

Woven is an independent project of Indigenous Climate Action, and guided by a Global Indigenous Advisory Council (GIAC) with Indigenous representatives from the UN Seven Sociocultural Regions of the world.  The GIAC will guide the project and ensure input from diverse global Indigenous voices to test initial ideas and determine the pathways for longer-term strategies and needs to take this project to the next level.

OUR council

Meet the Global Indigenous Advisory Council (GIAC):

The GIAC’s role is to guide the project, test initial ideas and determine the pathways for longer term strategies and needs to take this project to the next level.

  • Graeme Reed

    North America, Anishinabe (Canada)

  • Thomas Joseph

    North America, Hupa, Karuk, Paiute-Shoshone (USA)

  • Kimaren ole Riamit

    Africa, Maasai (Kenya)

  • Elijah Toirai

    Africa, Maasai (Kenya)

  • Tiana Jakicevich

    Pacific, Māori, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa (New Zealand)

  • Larissa Baldwin Roberts

    Pacific, Widjabul Wia-bal (Australia)

  • Asami Segundo

    Asia, Kalanguya-Ikalahan (Philippines)

  • Tunga Rai

    Asia, Rai (Nepal)

  • Gunn-Britt Retter

    Arctic, Sámi (Norway)

  • Inka-Saara Arttijeff

    Arctic, Sámi (Finland)

  • Leo Cerda

    Latin America, Kichwa (Ecuador)

  • Taily Terena

    Latin America, Xané /Terena,  (Brazil)

Meet The Team

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
President/Founder

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is a proud member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), President and founder of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) and The Woven Project, and 2024 winner of the global Climate Breakthrough award. 

Deranger’s work focuses on Indigenous rights, climate justice and intersectional movements. She is recognized for her role as spokespersons for her community in the international Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign.

Janene Yazzie
Director of Global Programmes

Janene Yazzie (Diné) is an internationally known Indigenous Rights and human rights advocate and a long-time community organizer from the Navajo Nation. With a background in International Politics and Human Rights she has 21 years of experience working on the intersections of Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Climate Change/Climate Justice, Water Sovereignty, Food Sovereignty, Sustainable Development, Renewable Energy, and protection of Human Rights defenders. 

Coyote Park
Global Communications Manager

Coyote Park (he/they) is a Two-Spirit artist and educator of Karuk, Yurok, German, and Korean descent. Park, having received education from Parsons School of Design, works at the intersection of media and humanities.

ABOUT OUR FOUNDER

Upholding our prophecies, values, and culture.

In 2009 at the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska, Eriel Deranger, a long-standing Indigenous rights and climate advocate, learned of  a prophecy that would one day inspire Woven. At the turn of the last ice age, Indigenous peoples were called together to share knowledge in order to survive. It was prophesied that at another point in the future, people from every corner of the world would gather together to share their strengths in order to survive once again. In 2024, upon receiving the Climate Breakthrough award, Eriel sought to create a global gathering space for Indigenous peoples to share strategies, technology, and innovation and help fulfill this prophecy. 

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Woven’s work centers on gathering Indigenous Peoples, creating and sharing global knowledges and tools, mobilizing resources to directly support Indigenous-led climate action, and amplifying Indigenous-led climate movements on a global field. Support our work by donating today.