Board of Directors

Casey Camp Horinek, President

Casey Camp Horinek is an elder and the Environmental Ambassador for the Southern Ponca Tribe of what is now called Oklahoma. She is the Drumkeeper of Ponca Pa’thata Women’s Society. In addition to being the founding chairwoman of Movement Rights’ Board, she also directs our Ponca Rights of Nature campaign. While serving on the Ponca Business Committee, Casey led her community to become the first tribe to recognize the Rights of Nature in tribal law in the US. Like her brother, the late Carter Camp, who was a leader in the American Indian Movement, Casey has been an outspoken protector and defender of her people and Mother Earth and a global leader in the Rights of Nature movement. She serves as the chair of the Indigenous Council for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. As a result of fracking, pipelines and the Phillips 66 Refinery, the Ponca people community live in one of the worst fossil fuel impacted areas in the United States. She calls it “environmental genocide.” Casey is also a wife, mother, grandmother, and a working film and TV actress addition to speaking on concerns of Indigenous communities globally.

Heather Horsefall Milton, Secretary

Heather has over twenty years of organizing experience from local issues to international campaigns. Heather was a founding member of Native Youth Movement-that empowered youth politically and socially to make change in their communities; based in Winnipeg, MB in 1995. She helped found Winnipeg’s first Native youth organization called Aboriginal Youth with Initiative, Inc. in 1998 through her position as Associate Director. Heather then went on to found and build a national Native youth network that supported Native youth organizing across the US and Canada with the Indigenous Environmental Network. She was a former member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Youth Advisory and has extensive experience in lobbying internationally through the United Nations and other International arenas on Indigenous Peoples issues. Heather’s work since then has been to build capacity and find resources that help local Indigenous communities. From funding board participation on the Funding Exchange Saguaro Fund, Honor the Earth and currently at the Cloudberry Collective; to founding the Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3) to train Indigenous peoples on non-violent direct action tools. She was formally the Director & Co-Director of the Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, working to support frontline impacted Indigenous communities. She was a founding member of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA), which is the only Indigenous climate organization in Canada. Heather is currently consulting with many different organizations doing training, facilitating and support work for Indigenous communities while working on finishing a Masters Degree at York University in Toronto, on Indigenous Just Transition.

Cristian J Martinez, Treasurer

For nearly two decades, Cristian has worked within environmental and community-centered organizations, including Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) across California. In these roles, he has served on Financial and Diversity committees and contributed to compulsory annual financial audits. As a native Spanish speaker, he has led outreach efforts and built partnerships with marginalized communities, helping groups deepen our understanding of our interconnectedness with Nature. Cristian carries ancestry from Indigenous Mexican communities in the regions of Chihuahua and Jalisco, as well as the Mapuche people of Argentina and Chile.

Our Board of Advisors

Michael Horse

Michael Horse is an actor, jeweler, ledger painter and activist. His traditional art depicts the spiritual connection of Native American culture to Mother Earth. His activism centers around these same themes, promoting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature, and the well-being of communities, particularly frontline communities facing fossil fuel extraction.

Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck

Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck is the co-founder of Seven Directions of Service with her husband. She is a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation in Burlington, NC. She is a board member of the Haw River Assembly, the Women’s Resource Center and Benevolence Farm. Crystal was a Fall Cohort of the Sierra Club’s Gender Equity and Environment Program and Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) Accelerator for Grassroots Women Environmental Leaders in 2020. Crystal completed her Doctorate in Organization Leadership at the University of Dayton in August 2022, and her dissertation focused on the Social Justice issue of Missing Murdered Indigenous Women in Gas/Oil Pipelines in frontline communities.

Her current projects focus on missing, murdered indigenous women, burden, exposure, risk, and health disparities among American Indians in environmental justice communities. Crystal calls Four Sacred Rivers home, the Haw River, Eno River, Dan River and Roanoke River. Currently, she is working on protecting the Haw River, as it is 5 miles from her, as it has been deemed one of the country’s most endangered rivers by the conservation group American Rivers. Finally, Crystal is working on inequities in our food system, which continue to disproportionately burden communities of color. Dismantling these inequities is imperative to achieve a sustainable food system and ultimately food justice.

Alison Ehara Brown

Alison Ehara-Brown (Mohawk, Seneca, Scottish and Palatine German) is a co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay (an Indigenous women led climate justice organization) and now serves as a grandmother advisor to INM SF Bay. She is a signatory on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty, and has participated in non-violent direct actions on every solstice and equinox since the Treaty came to life in 2015. She was a key organizer of the Bay Area Refinery Corridor Healing Walks from 2014 to 2017, where indigenous women led Native people and our allies from many organizations on healing walks from between the five refinery impacted towns along the San Francisco Bay. She has been involved in many non-violent direct actions over many years, and first understood the importance of civil disobedience at the age of four and a half, when her father was arrested as part of the Freedom Rides. Her years of growing up with activist parents meant that non-violence and direct actions were a part of her life always. She began doing civil disobedience support when she was thirteen years old. As a grandmother now, helping to inspire and train other grandmothers to hold the streets, risk arrest, and support younger people is one of her passions. As a grandmother, she continues to devote her energy to doing her best to ensure a livable world for the generations to come.

In Memoriam

Hinewirangi Kohu-Morgan

In the spirit world 2023, Hinewirangi Kohu-Morgan is a Maori artist, poet, and activist, who lives and works in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is the Executive Director for the non-profit Nga Mata Whanau Trust. She is a Board Member of the International Indian Treaty Council and is a Representative for the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement. Hinewirangi is a founding director of the Maori Women’s Centre, which runs programs that help end domestic violence and rebuild community while promoting radical changes in the dominant political and economic system. She teaches in her homeland of New Zealand and abroad, conducting workshops on all aspects of the Maori philosophies of mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. She is also the lead coordinator for Movement Rights delegations to Aotearoa.