Julian Brave Noisecat (Secwepemc/St’at’imc)

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 Guardian, The Nation, The Paris Review, Pacific Standard, Indian Country Today, and many other publications. He is a correspondent for Real America with Jorge Ramos, and he has appeared as a commentator on Marketplace, CBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, Fusion TV and other outlets. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and twice nominated for the Canadian National Magazine Awards.

Julian studied history at Columbia University and the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon scholar. He led the U.S. policy work for climate organization 350.org and helped craft many policy platforms, including the Green New Deal. He is the Director of Green New Deal Strategy for Data for Progress. The belief that Indigenous Peoples can contribute to understanding and solving the world’s most pressing challenges inspires his work. A proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie, he grew up in Oakland, California.