Debra Harry, Ph.D. (Kooyooee Dukaddo; member, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada) is the founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB) and the Emerging Indigenous Leaders Institute (EILI). A global leader in the movement to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their genetic resources, ancestral knowledge, and cultural and human rights from biocolonialism, her research analyzes the complex linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to Indigenous Peoples’ rights and concerns, and she is a leading advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples in many international fora, including at the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Debra Harry also produced the 2003 documentary film The Leech and the Earthworm, which examines the globalized hunt for genes within Indigenous territories. ipcb.org
