Enei Begaye
Enei Begaye is of the Diné and Tohono O’odham Nations. She is the executive director of Native Movement, an Alaska based movement building organization. Enei is a member of Kataly Foundation’s Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) and a new board member of the funding group Grassroots International. Enei has spent over 25 years organizing and advocating for social and environmental justice, Indigenous rights and the rights of Mother Earth, and grassroots-led movement building. She has been instrumental in the development of numerous regional and national networks, coalitions, and organizations; including being the co-founder and former executive director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) and a co-founder and leader of the Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition (FCAC). She is the producer of the award-winning documentary film “We Breathe Again”. Enei is a facilitator, a writer, a teacher, as well as a dirt loving, vegetable growing, fabric addicted, bookworm, and a fierce mother. She was educated on the land of her peoples and the halls of Stanford University. Enei lives nomadically between the lands of the lower Tanana Dena’ in the community of Fairbanks, Alaska and her homelands of Dinétah.
