Michelle Cook

Founder & Director of the Divest Invest Protect Campaign at Women's Earth and Climate Action Network

Michelle Cook J.D. (Diné/Navajo) is the Founder of the Divest Invest Protect campaign and Co-Director of the Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegations. She is an indigenous human rights lawyer and a commissioner on the Navajo Human Rights Commission, and is currently a SJD candidate at the University of Arizona's Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. She is writing her dissertation on financial institutions, indigenous people’s human rights, gender, and indigenous transnationalism. She has worked with the Water Protector Legal Collective, the on the ground legal team which provides legal services to those arrested at the Standing Rock encampment. She advocates for indigenous human rights internationally.