Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with frontline, grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions to build women's leadership, climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future. Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women's Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women's Climate Action Agenda’. She also is honored to serve on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and has been a core organizer of various International Rights of Nature Tribunals. Her writing about climate justice, women in leadership and other topics have been featured in The Guardian,[1] Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, OpenDemocracy and Ecowatch and other publications. She is the author of the book Uprisings for the Earth:Reconnecting Culture with Nature,[2][3] which won the 2011 Nautilus Book Award.[4]

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  1. ↑ "Osprey Orielle Lake | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  2. ↑ "Osprey Orielle Lake". The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Osprey Orielle Lake". Omega. 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  4. ↑ "Monthly Gathering: Exploring Culture, Nature, and Activism with Osprey Orielle Lake". www.pachamama.org. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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