Mona Polacca
Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa Elder, Educator, Member of International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers Mona Polacca is a founding member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. She serves as the Co-Secretariat of the Indigenous World Forum on Water & Peace and is currently working with the Center for Earth Ethics as the Senior Fellow overseeing the Original Caretakers Program, focusing on Indigenous Peoples issues.
About this speaker
Mona Polacca serves as the Co-Secretariat of the Indigenous World Forum on Water & Peace. She has been an invited speaker to the 2020 Symposium on Water & Culture, International Heritage Water Culture Conference, 2019, and the Great Water and Heritage Forum in 2018 presenting an Indigenous worldview on water.
She is currently working with the Center for Earth Ethics as the Senior Fellow overseeing the Original Caretakers Program, focusing on Indigenous Peoples issues.
Her work includes assisting some Canadian First Nations in drafting Water Declarations, and South American Indigenous Peoples in creating a collaborative effort to call for the protection of the cultural and sacred waters and conserve biodiversity on the lands and territories of the Indigenous People of the world.
Mona is a founding member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, which is an alliance of Indigenous women from around the world who are upholding, preserving, and protecting the earth-based medicine, Indigenous practices, and beliefs.