IEN Staff & Board

Bemidji Main Office:

PO Box 485
Bemidji, MN 56619
Tel: (218) 751-4967

Tom Goldtooth (Dine' and Dakota), Executive Director – oversees the work of IEN and assists IEN staff in policy work around environmental protection, environmental justice, climate justice, energy, toxics, water, globalization and trade, and sustainable development.
ien@igc.org

Robert Shimek (Ojibwe), Mining Campaign Organizer – works to support campaigns of tribal communities impacted by uranium, coal, and hardrock/metal development.
rshimek@ienearth.org

Kandi Mossett (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Organizer – works on tribal colleges throughout the upper plains and western great lakes to support the development and sustainment of initiatives to reduce tribal colleges’ contribution to climate change.
iencampusclimate@igc.org

Simone Senogles (Ojibwe), Development Coordinator – oversees fundraising for IEN.
simone@ienearth.org

Marty Cobenais (Ojibwe), Office Manager – nuts and bolts.
martyc@ienearth.org

Field Offices:

Jihan Gearon (Dine’), Native Energy Organizer – works to build the capacity of tribal communities to protect themselves from unsustainable energy policies and developments including oil and gas, coal bed methane, nuclear, large scale hydro, and large scale geothermal. Also works on climate justice issues.

PO Box 2696
Flagstaff, AZ 86003
Tel: (928) 214-8301
ienenergy@igc.org

 

Faith Gemmill (Pit River/ Wintu and Neets'aii Gwich'in Athabascan), REDOIL Outreach Coordinator – coordinates the work of the Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL) Network, which addresses impacts of the fossil fuel industry on Alaska Native sovereignty and self-determination, subsistence, human and ecological health and climate change.

PO Box 74667
Fairbanks, AK 99707
Tel: (907) 750-0188
redoil1@acsalaska.net

Shawna Larson (Athabascan), Environmental Justice Organizer with Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) and IEN Partnership – works with Alaska tribal villages on environmental justice issues within Alaska, focusing on persistent organic pollutants and bioaccumulative toxics, military toxics, mining, pesticides, municipal solid waste disposal issues, and environmental health.

135 Christensen Drive
Anchorage, AK 99501
Tel: (907) 222-7714
shawna@akaction.net

Clayton Thomas-Muller Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign
2-94 Charlotte ST. Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1N 8K2
Cell: 218 760 6632

Board of Directors

Manual Pino (Acoma Pueblo) – Manny is a founding member of Laguna-Acoma for a Safe Environment, a community-based, tribal organization working on uranium contamination issues in Pueblo communities in New Mexico. He is also an instructor in and Director of the Tribal Development Program at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona.

Bineshi Albert (Euchee and Ojibwe) – Bineshi is a founding member of the IEN Youth Program, and currently serves as the Northwest/West Field Organizer for Center for Community Change, which aims to establish and develop community organizations across the country, bring attention to major national issues related to poverty, and help insure that government programs are responsive to community needs.

Sayo': kla Kindness (Oneida) – Sayo’kla is the former Mining Campaign Organizer for IEN.