Dennis Martinez, of O’odham, Chicano, and Swedish heritage, founder and Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network of the Society for Ecological Restoration International and Co-director of the Takelma Intertribal Project, has worked in ecocultural restoration in temperate and subtropical ecosystems for 43 years. He works internationally on cultural rights, resource and knowledge protection, climate change, forest restoration, and bridging Western science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and has received numerous awards, including an Ecotrust-Buffet Award for Indigenous Conservation Leadership in NW North America. He is on the steering committee of the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (IPCCA), and has consulted with the National Congress of American Indians, the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Network and other groups on Indigenous adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.
