Indigenous Leaders populating the Winterland Solutionist Summit brought expertise spanning sectors including climate science, law, academia, screenwriting, public health, engineering and food systems, across multiple Tribal Nations: Blackfeet, Navajo, Gros Venture, Salish & Kootenai, Chippewa, Ogalala and Fox Sioux. Naatosi Fish sang and drummed an honor song to ground his Indigenous brothers and sisters and all of our leaders in the work we set out to do. Salish Global Climate Leader, Michael Durglo, smudged the room to prepare it for good work.
The Summit kicked-off with this Ford Ad featuring Pashon Murray and reminding us that ‘Anything is Possible’, before her Ignite Talk 🤜🏼🤛🏾
New Horizons Studio Leading the Way for the Future of Ultimate Mobility.
Art and Culture shape Innovation beyond mere technological solutions.
Walking Raven Woman aka Maria Gladstone, is a Climate Engineer, TEDX Speaker, Entrepreneur, Artist, Educator and passionate advocate for Indiginous Peoples’ rights and ancestral knowledge. Mariah’s heritage is Blackfeet and Navajo, and is currently living and working in Babb, Montana on the Blackfeet Nation after receiving a B.S. in Climate Engineering Columbia University and a M.S. from SUNY. She founded Indigikitchen.tv. Part cooking show, part history lesson, part Food Systems education.
Featured Ignite Speaker Ann Radil is a 5th generation rancher, a climate scientist, Co-Founder and Head of Carbon Reduction for Neutral Dairy and a National Leader in the corporate sector around carbon reduction strategies. Formerly Nike Circular Economy. Check out her full bio on our Summit page - she’s an absolute force!
Winterland Solutonist Summit Ignite Talk Featuring Pashon Murray
Jake Hendrix from Riff Creative, LSW Architects, and The Roadcast, represents the Built World Roundtable on the Lightning Round.
Kian Tanner is a youth climate activist from Bigfork, Montana, a college student at (non-published), and a youth plaintiff in the Landmark Supreme Court Case - Held vs.The State of Montana - fighting to keep the integrity of the newly challenged Montana law that states the citizens of Montana have a right to clean water, clean air and a healthy environment.
Vote for who commits to addressing climate change or there will come a point where it’s too late and nothing else on the ballot matters.
Brian Lipscomb of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, brings logic and scientific clarity to the changing Flathead Lake levels in a riveting Keynote Talk, describing the role Energy Keepers has in shepherding this enormously valuable Montana resource in an era of a rapidly changing climate. CSKT has full corporate ownership of Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam.
