Sherri Mitchell – Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset (Bearer of Light) is a lawyer, eco-feminist activist and indigenous author from the Penobscot Nation. She graduated from Roger’s College of Law at the University of Arizona, specialising in Indigenous Law and Policy. She is the founder of the Land Peace Foundation, an organisation dedicated to preserving the rights and protecting the way of life of indigenous peoples. She serves as a trustee for the American Indian Institute, a member of the advisory board for Nia Tero’s indigenous land stewardship programme, and a member of the board of the Post Carbon Institute. Sherri was also a member of the development team for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Action for Climate Empowerment. She has received numerous human rights awards, including the Mahoney Dunn International Human Rights and Humanitarian Award and the University of Maine Alumni International Human Rights Award. Sherri is also the organiser of the global healing ceremony, Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island, a gathering that brought together more than fifty thousand people from six continents to focus on healing our relationships with each other and with the natural world. She has contributed to eleven anthologies, including the bestseller All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis and Resetting Our Future: Empowering Climate Action in the United States. Sacred Instructions is a bestseller in the US and has also been published in Germany.
