LaDuke is an environmental leader, author, and economist who works on issues of climate change, indigenous and human rights, renewable energy, and food systems.
She founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989 on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota to focus on the recovery, preservation, and restoration of land. Together with the Sioux Nation, she helped organize the protests at Standing Rock to preserve the Nation’s drinking water and sacred lands from the damage the pipeline would cause.
