Founded in 2004, Not An Alternative (NAA) is a nonprofit collective that produces socially engaged art to confront environmental and social injustice. Our ongoing initiative, The Natural History Museum (NHM, 2014-), is a mobile and virtual museum that brings arts, culture, and education to communities through touring exhibitions, pop-up events, and digital programs. NHM collaborates with artists, culture-bearers, scientists, and community groups—particularly in rural, Tribal, and historically underserved communities—to create inclusive public experiences that spark dialogue, shift narratives, and inspire environmental and civic action. Our current and past work since 2014 can be found at TheNaturalHistoryMuseum.org.
Not An Alternative’s work has been featured in museums and galleries around the world, including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Queens Museum, Guggenheim, PS1/MOMA, Carnegie Museums of Art & Natural History, Brooklyn Museum, Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, MOCAD, Museo del Arte Moderno, Florida Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, Project Row Houses, Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, and in the public sphere, where they collaborate with activists and community groups
Our Team
Alberto Acosta
Alberto is an Ecuadorian economist. He is currently a university professor, lecturer, and, above all, a comrade of popular struggles. He was formerly Minister of Energy and Mining (2007), President of the Constituent Assembly (2007-08) that enshrined the rights of Mother Nature in Ecuador’s constitution,...
Andrea Rollefson
Andrea is a producer at The Natural History Museum, with a background in exhibition design, book design and art production, and holds a BA in anthropology from McGill University. For more than a decade, Andrea has worked with artists, museums, publishers, magazines, and activist groups...
Andrew Curley (Diné)
Andrew is an assistant professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at the University of Arizona. Curley’s research focuses on the everyday incorporation of Indigenous nations into colonial economies. Building on ethnographic research, his publications speak to how Indigenous communities understand coal, energy, land,...
Ashley Dawson
Ashley is a Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. His latest books include People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban...
Beka Economopoulos
Beka has more than 20 years of experience working in the arts, community and environmental justice organizing, and communications. She is a co-founder of The Natural History Museum, a founding member of the social justice arts collective Not An Alternative, co-organizer and Board Member of the...
Billy Fleming
Billy is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design and Diana Balmori Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture. Billy is co-editor of An Adaptation Blueprint (Island Press, 2021), co-editor and co-curator of the book and now internationally-traveling...
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes descendant)
Dina is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. At CSUSM she teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy, Native women’s activism, American...
Kai Bosworth
Kai is a geographer and Assistant Professor of International Studies in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
Natchee Blu Barnd
Natchee is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between ethnic studies, cultural geography, and Indigenous studies. His research focuses on issues of race, space, and Indigenous geographies. His book, Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (OSU Press, and the First...
Rosalyn LaPier (Blackfeet / Métis)
Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, ethnobotanist and environmental activist with a BA in physics and PhD in environmental history. She works within Indigenous communities to revitalize Indigenous & traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), to address environmental justice & the climate crisis, and to strengthen public...
Steve Lyons
Steve is an artist, art historian, and core member of Not An Alternative. His work has been exhibited in art institutions internationally, and his writing has appeared in e-flux journal, Jacobin, The Guardian, and Scientific American. He holds a BFA from the University of Western...
Ruth Miller (Łchavaya K’isen)
Ruth Miller (Łchavaya K’isen) is a Dena’ina Athabaskan and Ashkenazi Russian Jewish woman, raised in Dgheyay Kaq (Anchorage), Alaska. She is a member of the Curyung Tribe from the Lake Iliamna region, and also has roots in Bristol Bay. She is a recent graduate from Brown...
Karina Yager (Quechua)
Karina is the Director of Education with The Natural History Museum, an ongoing project by Not An Alternative. Karina Yager has abundant experience working with Indigenous communities, museums, and in public and scientific outreach projects on some of today’s most pressing global challenges, from climate...
Julian Brave Noisecat (Secwepemc/St’at’imc)
Julian is the Narrative Change Director with The Natural History Museum, an ongoing project by Not An Alternative. An award-winning writer and journalist, he is a contributing editor at Canadian Geographic and he wrote the foreword to the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. His work has appeared in The...
Cassandra Begay (Diné)
Cassandra is the Director of Community Engagement with The Natural History Museum, an ongoing project by Not An Alternative. Yá’át’èèh shik’èí dóó shidine’è .Shí éí Cassandra Begay yinishyé. Tsi’naajinii nishłį́. Naakaii bashishchiin. Tódích’íí’nii dashicheii. Naakaii dashinalí. Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį́. Hello family and relatives. My...
Winnie Fung
Winner is currently the Director of Finance and Operations at Planned Parenthood Toronto. With over 10 years of non-profit management experience, she has held senior positions in artist-run centers in Canada and in the US. Previously she served as the Director of Business and Organizational Resources...
Marisa Morán Jahn
Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, multimedia designer, educator, and the founder of Studio REV-, a nonprofit organization whose public art projects and tools impact the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, women, and youth. A graduate of MIT, Jahn has taught at MIT, the American Museum of...
Josh Yoder
Josh Yoder has a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Design from Tyler School of Art, and experience in responsive web design and digital publishing. Past projects include flash websites, book illustration and cover design, and informational guides and pamphlets such as the Fracking Pamphlet and...
Mon Iker
Mon Iker is a multimedia artist and producer with 7 years of experience in props production and scene painting for museum exhibits, gallery installations and main stage productions. She works in a range of fabrication techniques, from video and animation to silk screening and construction....
Angela Tran
Ange Tran is a designer and visual communications strategist with a degree in Communication Design from Pratt Institute. As Principal Designer at Not An Alternative, she designed many of the graphic elements that came to signify the Occupy movement and Occupy Sandy relief efforts. She...
Jonathan King
Jonathan King is a PhD student in Media and Communications at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is writing his dissertation on the concept of chance as it relates to the history of philosophy and the history of political organization. He has been involved...
Ian Hart
Ian Hart was a founding member of Not An Alternative, active from 20014-2010. He worked for six years at the American Museum of Natural History as an exhibit preparator, artist, and conservation technician. He fabricated exhibits and installed artifacts for exhibitions on a wide range of...
Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean is a political and media theorist who has been a core collaborator with Not an Alternative since 2010. She has given invited lectures in galleries, universities, and public fora around the world. Her most recent book is The Communist Horizon (Verso 2012). Previous...
Anjali Cadambi
Anjali recently finished her BA in Sociology and Studio Art at Swarthmore College. Anjali was a core collaborator with Not An Alternative from 2011-2013. She has been integral to strategic planning, concept development, and project execution. She writes copy for a variety of contexts and...
Arielle Lawson
Arielle Lawson is currently pursuing an M.A. in Urban Planning at Hunter College, and she is recent graduate of Macalester College where she studied sociology and environmental studies. As the EcoDistrict Outreach Coordinator for the Lutheran Volunteer Corps in Seattle she provided soup to nuts...
Alexis Bunten (Aleut/Yup’ik)
Alexis Bunten, (Aleut/Yup’ik) is co-director of the Bioneers Indigeneity Program. She has served as a manager, consultant and applied researcher for Indigenous, social and environmental programming for over 15 years. After receiving a BA in Art History at Dartmouth College, Alexis returned to Alaska, where...
Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Judith is a registered member of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma, a core team member of Not An Alternative, and the Director of the Native Organizers Alliance, a national Native organizing network which provides Native organizers, tribal governments and non-profits with trainings and support for strategic...
Laura Raicovich
Laura Raicovich is dedicated to art and artistic production that relies on complexity, poetics, and care to create a more engaged and equitable civic realm. Until recently, she served as President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum where she oversaw an inviting and vital commons...
Lise Van Susteran
Dr. Lise Van Susteren is an American psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC with a special interest in the psychological effects of climate change. Dr. Van Susteren is a frequent commentator on television and publishes a blog at the Huffington Post. She hosted a weekly...
Marc Weiss
Marc N. Weiss is best known as the creator and first Executive Producer of P.O.V., the award-winning documentary series now preparing for its 25th season on PBS. He has been a leader in the independent film and media movement for 40 years, as a filmmaker,...
Rosalyn LaPier (Blackfeet / Métis)
Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, ethnobotanist and environmental activist with a BA in physics and PhD in environmental history. She works within Indigenous communities to revitalize Indigenous & traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), to address environmental justice & the climate crisis, and to strengthen public...
Shelley Means (Ojibwe/Lakota)
Shelley Means (White Earth Ojibwe/Oglala Lakota) is a mother and Indigenous-community consultant, facilitator and volunteer who lives with her family in the traditional territories of the S’Homamish (Puyallup) people, on Vashon Island, Washington. Shelley is Trainer & Projects Coordinator with the Native Organizers Alliance; Coordinator for...
Exhibitions2023
—We Refuse to Die, "Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground", curated by Theodossis Issaias and Ala Tannir, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2022
—"Flood Tides of Resistance", curated by Oliver Ressler, NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol
—"Overground Resistance", curated by Oliver Ressler, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Quito
—Whale People: Protectors of the Sea, University of Oregon, Eugene; Tamastslikt Cultural Institute at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; and Stommish Grounds, Lummi Nation
—Spirit of the Waters traveling exhibit and community event series, Co-produced with Se’Si’Le and House of Tears Carvers
2021
—Red Road to DC: A Totem Pole Journey for the Protection of Sacred Places, a cross-country journey, traveling exhibit, multi-media production, and community event series co-produced with Native Organizers Alliance and House of Tears Carvers, online and on tribal lands in Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, and Washington D.C.
—"Hlk’yak’ii: To Start A Fire", Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Nation, BC, Canada
—Kwel' Hoy: We Draw The Line, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.
2020
—Whale People: Outdoor Exhibition and IMAX-style Film Projection at Lummi Nation
2019
—"Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print", Interference Archive + Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, NY
—"Offsetted", curated by Cooking Sections, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, NY
2018
—Whale People: Protectors of the Sea, Co-Created with Lummi Nation, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville
—"The Idea of the Avant Garde", curated by Marc James Leger, NeMe Arts Centre, Cyprus
—Kwel Hoy': Many Struggles, One Front, Co-Created with Lummi Nation, Watershed Center, Princeton
2017
—Kwel Hoy': We Draw The Line, co-created with Lummi Nation, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
—The Museum of the Future, "Hold These Truths" curated by No Longer Empty at Nathan Cummings Foundation
2016
—The Natural History Museum, American Alliance of Museums Convention, Washington D.C.
—"Agitprop!", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
—Mining the HMNS, Project Row Houses, Houston
2015
—The Natural History Museum, Association of Science and Technology Centers Convention, Montreal
—The Natural History Museum, American Alliance of Museums Annual Convention, Atlanta
—The Museum of the Future, "Eyebeam Showcase", Gallery 216, Brooklyn
—"This Changes Everything", Foundry Theatre, NY
2014
—The Natural History Museum Grand Opening, Queens Museum of Art, NY
—"Disobedient Objects", Victoria & Albert Museum, London
—"Art or Sound", Fondazione Prada - Ca' Corner Della Regina, Venice
2013
—"Beyond Zuccotti Park", Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, Sao Paulo
—"From Zuccotti to Taksim: Negotiating the Right to the City through Public Space", Hazel & Robert Siegel Gallery, Pratt University, Brooklyn
2012
—Occupy Their Desire, "Our Haus", Austrian Cultural Forum, NY
—Occupied Real Estate, "Collective/Performance", Exit Art, NY
2011
—"Occupy Everything", Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria
2010
—"Alternative Histories", Exit Art, NY
—Tomorrow is Another Day (After the Economic Crisis), "No Soul for Sale", Tate Modern, London
2009
—"The City From Below", Baltimore and NY
—The Subsumption Machine, "Mixer: Expo", Eyebeam, NY
—Not An Alternative Presents, X Initiative, NY
2008
—"Friendly Fire", NY Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, NY
2007
—"Festival Break 2.4: Potempkin Village", International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
2006
—"When Artists Say We", Artists Space, NY
2005
—Traverse the Fantasy, "Art in the Contested City", Higgins Gallery, Pratt University, Brooklyn
2004
—"Majority Whipped, Majority Whip", White Box, NY
2023
—We Refuse to Die, "Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground", curated by Theodossis Issaias and Ala Tannir, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2022
—"Flood Tides of Resistance", curated by Oliver Ressler, NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol
—"Overground Resistance", curated by Oliver Ressler, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Quito
—Whale People: Protectors of the Sea, University of Oregon, Eugene; Tamastslikt Cultural Institute at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; and Stommish Grounds, Lummi Nation
—Spirit of the Waters traveling exhibit and community event series, Co-produced with Se’Si’Le and House of Tears Carvers
2021
—Red Road to DC: A Totem Pole Journey for the Protection of Sacred Places, a cross-country journey, traveling exhibit, multi-media production, and community event series co-produced with Native Organizers Alliance and House of Tears Carvers, online and on tribal lands in Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, and Washington D.C.
—"Hlk’yak’ii: To Start A Fire", Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Nation, BC, Canada
—Kwel' Hoy: We Draw The Line, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.
2020
—Whale People: Outdoor Exhibition and IMAX-style Film Projection at Lummi Nation
2019
—"Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print", Interference Archive + Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery, NY
—"Offsetted", curated by Cooking Sections, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, NY
2018
—Whale People: Protectors of the Sea, Co-Created with Lummi Nation, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville
—"The Idea of the Avant Garde", curated by Marc James Leger, NeMe Arts Centre, Cyprus
—Kwel Hoy': Many Struggles, One Front, Co-Created with Lummi Nation, Watershed Center, Princeton
2017
—Kwel Hoy': We Draw The Line, co-created with Lummi Nation, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
—The Museum of the Future, "Hold These Truths" curated by No Longer Empty at Nathan Cummings Foundation
2016
—The Natural History Museum, American Alliance of Museums Convention, Washington D.C.
—"Agitprop!", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
—Mining the HMNS, Project Row Houses, Houston
2015
—The Natural History Museum, Association of Science and Technology Centers Convention, Montreal
—The Natural History Museum, American Alliance of Museums Annual Convention, Atlanta
—The Museum of the Future, "Eyebeam Showcase", Gallery 216, Brooklyn
—"This Changes Everything", Foundry Theatre, NY
2014
—The Natural History Museum Grand Opening, Queens Museum of Art, NY
—"Disobedient Objects", Victoria & Albert Museum, London
—"Art or Sound", Fondazione Prada - Ca' Corner Della Regina, Venice
2013
—"Beyond Zuccotti Park", Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, Sao Paulo
—"From Zuccotti to Taksim: Negotiating the Right to the City through Public Space", Hazel & Robert Siegel Gallery, Pratt University, Brooklyn
2012
—Occupy Their Desire, "Our Haus", Austrian Cultural Forum, NY
—Occupied Real Estate, "Collective/Performance", Exit Art, NY
2011
—"Occupy Everything", Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria
2010
—"Alternative Histories", Exit Art, NY
—Tomorrow is Another Day (After the Economic Crisis), "No Soul for Sale", Tate Modern, London
2009
—"The City From Below", Baltimore and NY
—The Subsumption Machine, "Mixer: Expo", Eyebeam, NY
—Not An Alternative Presents, X Initiative, NY
2008
—"Friendly Fire", NY Art Book Fair, Printed Matter, NY
2007
—"Festival Break 2.4: Potempkin Village", International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
2006
—"When Artists Say We", Artists Space, NY
2005
—Traverse the Fantasy, "Art in the Contested City", Higgins Gallery, Pratt University, Brooklyn
2004
—"Majority Whipped, Majority Whip", White Box, NY
Supporters
A Blade of Grass
Puffin Foundation
Chorus Foundation
Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology
Voqal Fund
Brooklyn Arts Council
Overbrook Foundation
Horton Foundation Fund
Compton Foundation
Benoona Fund of RSF Social Finance
Andy Warhol Foundation
The New York Community Trust
Solidaire
Argosy Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
LUSH Charity Pot
Patagonia Foundation
Invoking The Pause
Heinz Foundation
Beespace NYC
Hewlett Foundation
Scintilla Foundation
4Culture
ArtsFund
Canada Council for the Arts
Carmack Collective
Creative Capital
Creative Change
CrossCurrents Foundation
David Rockefeller Fund
Nathan Cummings Foundation
National Geographic Foundation
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
New York Community Trust
Park Foundation
Resource Legacy Fund
Vadon Foundation
Water Foundation
Ruth Miller (Łchavaya K’isen)
Ruth Miller (Łchavaya K’isen) is a Dena’ina Athabaskan and Ashkenazi Russian Jewish woman, raised in Dgheyay Kaq (Anchorage), Alaska. She is a member of the Curyung Tribe from the Lake Iliamna region, and also has roots in Bristol Bay. She is a recent graduate from Brown...
Alberto Acosta
Alberto is an Ecuadorian economist. He is currently a university professor, lecturer, and, above all, a comrade of popular struggles. He was formerly Minister of Energy and Mining (2007), President of the Constituent Assembly (2007-08) that enshrined the rights of Mother Nature in Ecuador’s constitution,...
Andrea Rollefson
Andrea is a producer at The Natural History Museum, with a background in exhibition design, book design and art production, and holds a BA in anthropology from McGill University. For more than a decade, Andrea has worked with artists, museums, publishers, magazines, and activist groups...
Karina Yager (Quechua)
Karina is the Director of Education with The Natural History Museum, an ongoing project by Not An Alternative. Karina Yager has abundant experience working with Indigenous communities, museums, and in public and scientific outreach projects on some of today’s most pressing global challenges, from climate...
Julian Brave Noisecat (Secwepemc/St’at’imc)
Julian is the Narrative Change Director with The Natural History Museum, an ongoing project by Not An Alternative. An award-winning writer and journalist, he is a contributing editor at Canadian Geographic and he wrote the foreword to the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. His work has appeared in The...
Cassandra Begay (Diné)
Cassandra is the Director of Community Engagement with The Natural History Museum, an ongoing project by Not An Alternative. Yá’át’èèh shik’èí dóó shidine’è .Shí éí Cassandra Begay yinishyé. Tsi’naajinii nishłį́. Naakaii bashishchiin. Tódích’íí’nii dashicheii. Naakaii dashinalí. Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį́. Hello family and relatives. My...
Andrew Curley (Diné)
Andrew is an assistant professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at the University of Arizona. Curley’s research focuses on the everyday incorporation of Indigenous nations into colonial economies. Building on ethnographic research, his publications speak to how Indigenous communities understand coal, energy, land,...
Winnie Fung
Winner is currently the Director of Finance and Operations at Planned Parenthood Toronto. With over 10 years of non-profit management experience, she has held senior positions in artist-run centers in Canada and in the US. Previously she served as the Director of Business and Organizational Resources...
Marisa Morán Jahn
Marisa Morán Jahn is an artist, multimedia designer, educator, and the founder of Studio REV-, a nonprofit organization whose public art projects and tools impact the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, women, and youth. A graduate of MIT, Jahn has taught at MIT, the American Museum of...
Ashley Dawson
Ashley is a Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. His latest books include People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban...
Beka Economopoulos
Beka has more than 20 years of experience working in the arts, community and environmental justice organizing, and communications. She is a co-founder of The Natural History Museum, a founding member of the social justice arts collective Not An Alternative, co-organizer and Board Member of the...
Billy Fleming
Billy is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design and Diana Balmori Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture. Billy is co-editor of An Adaptation Blueprint (Island Press, 2021), co-editor and co-curator of the book and now internationally-traveling...
Josh Yoder
Josh Yoder has a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Design from Tyler School of Art, and experience in responsive web design and digital publishing. Past projects include flash websites, book illustration and cover design, and informational guides and pamphlets such as the Fracking Pamphlet and...
Mon Iker
Mon Iker is a multimedia artist and producer with 7 years of experience in props production and scene painting for museum exhibits, gallery installations and main stage productions. She works in a range of fabrication techniques, from video and animation to silk screening and construction....
Alexis Bunten (Aleut/Yup’ik)
Alexis Bunten, (Aleut/Yup’ik) is co-director of the Bioneers Indigeneity Program. She has served as a manager, consultant and applied researcher for Indigenous, social and environmental programming for over 15 years. After receiving a BA in Art History at Dartmouth College, Alexis returned to Alaska, where...
Angela Tran
Ange Tran is a designer and visual communications strategist with a degree in Communication Design from Pratt Institute. As Principal Designer at Not An Alternative, she designed many of the graphic elements that came to signify the Occupy movement and Occupy Sandy relief efforts. She...
Jonathan King
Jonathan King is a PhD student in Media and Communications at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. He is writing his dissertation on the concept of chance as it relates to the history of philosophy and the history of political organization. He has been involved...
Ian Hart
Ian Hart was a founding member of Not An Alternative, active from 20014-2010. He worked for six years at the American Museum of Natural History as an exhibit preparator, artist, and conservation technician. He fabricated exhibits and installed artifacts for exhibitions on a wide range of...
Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean is a political and media theorist who has been a core collaborator with Not an Alternative since 2010. She has given invited lectures in galleries, universities, and public fora around the world. Her most recent book is The Communist Horizon (Verso 2012). Previous...
Winnie Fung
Winnie Fung was a founding member of Not An Alternative, acting as a director of operations, creative strategist, and visual producer. Winnie has held senior positions in artist-run centers in Canada and in the US. She is currently the Director of Business and Organizational Resources...
Anjali Cadambi
Anjali recently finished her BA in Sociology and Studio Art at Swarthmore College. Anjali was a core collaborator with Not An Alternative from 2011-2013. She has been integral to strategic planning, concept development, and project execution. She writes copy for a variety of contexts and...
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes descendant)
Dina is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. At CSUSM she teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy, Native women’s activism, American...
Judith LeBlanc (Caddo)
Judith is a registered member of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma, a core team member of Not An Alternative, and the Director of the Native Organizers Alliance, a national Native organizing network which provides Native organizers, tribal governments and non-profits with trainings and support for strategic...
Laura Raicovich
Laura Raicovich is dedicated to art and artistic production that relies on complexity, poetics, and care to create a more engaged and equitable civic realm. Until recently, she served as President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum where she oversaw an inviting and vital commons...
Kai Bosworth
Kai is a geographer and Assistant Professor of International Studies in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
Lise Van Susteran
Dr. Lise Van Susteren is an American psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC with a special interest in the psychological effects of climate change. Dr. Van Susteren is a frequent commentator on television and publishes a blog at the Huffington Post. She hosted a weekly...
Natchee Blu Barnd
Natchee is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between ethnic studies, cultural geography, and Indigenous studies. His research focuses on issues of race, space, and Indigenous geographies. His book, Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (OSU Press, and the First...
Marc Weiss
Marc N. Weiss is best known as the creator and first Executive Producer of P.O.V., the award-winning documentary series now preparing for its 25th season on PBS. He has been a leader in the independent film and media movement for 40 years, as a filmmaker,...
Arielle Lawson
Arielle Lawson is currently pursuing an M.A. in Urban Planning at Hunter College, and she is recent graduate of Macalester College where she studied sociology and environmental studies. As the EcoDistrict Outreach Coordinator for the Lutheran Volunteer Corps in Seattle she provided soup to nuts...
Rosalyn LaPier (Blackfeet / Métis)
Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, ethnobotanist and environmental activist with a BA in physics and PhD in environmental history. She works within Indigenous communities to revitalize Indigenous & traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), to address environmental justice & the climate crisis, and to strengthen public...
Steve Lyons
Steve is an artist, art historian, and core member of Not An Alternative. His work has been exhibited in art institutions internationally, and his writing has appeared in e-flux journal, Jacobin, The Guardian, and Scientific American. He holds a BFA from the University of Western...
Shelley Means (Ojibwe/Lakota)
Shelley Means (White Earth Ojibwe/Oglala Lakota) is a mother and Indigenous-community consultant, facilitator and volunteer who lives with her family in the traditional territories of the S’Homamish (Puyallup) people, on Vashon Island, Washington. Shelley is Trainer & Projects Coordinator with the Native Organizers Alliance; Coordinator for...