2025 Women & Water Coming Together Symposium
Presentors
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Judy Da Silva, a Grassy Narrows community member, is a mother to 5 children. They help her to have the positive energy to continue to look for justice and for the solution to the mercury poisoning of their river system in Grassy Narrows & Mother Earth. She recently was awarded the Michael Sattler Peace Prize in Germany and Human Rights Watch Award in Toronto, Art Manuel environmental award & Wilfred Laurier honorary doctorate in recognition of her lifelong work to advocate for her community members for environmental protection using peaceful, nonviolent direct actions.
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Chickadee Richard (Benais Quimiwin
Ikwe) is a member of the Sandy Bay
First Nation. She is a proud
Anishinaaba kwe who has dedicated
her life to the betterment of our land
and water, and the safety of the
community.
Chickadee has spent over three
decades working with a variety of
organizations and communities to
support healing, to advocate for
Indigenous rights and to create
awareness about the beauty of
Indigenous peoples and their culture.
Chickadee is a member of the Indigenous
Council of Grandmothers and Grandfathers. This Council supports teachers and students as they learn
about Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
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Dr. Michael "Migizi" Sullivan, LCO, earned his undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and his master’s and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He previously worked as the Community Language Curator for the Ojibwe People’s Dictionary (online) and has worked with and recorded dozens of Ojibwe-speaking elders across the vast Anishinaabe territory.
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My Anishinaabe name is Nodaway Benaise and I am Sturgeon Clan. I am enrolled in the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, and my ancestry includes Menominee, Mille Lacs Ojibwe, Stockbridge-Munsee, French and English. My experience as an educator, lecturer and curriculum specialist in American Indian history and culture has taken me all over the world, working with people, communities and organizations.
My passion is helping teachers, students and businesses understand and appreciate Native American culture from a historical and contemporary point of view, to create greater understanding, teamwork and communication.
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
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