
Photo: © Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Activist and educator, lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) 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 Indians and sports,
and decolonization. She also works within the field of critical sports studies, examining the intersections
of indigeneity and the sport of surfing. As a public intellectual, Dina brings her scholarship into focus as
an award-winning journalist, with her work appearing at Indian Country Today, the Los Angeles Times,
High Country News, Time.com, Slate, History.com, Bioneers, Truthout, the Pacifica Network, Grist, CSPAN
Booktalk, The Boston Globe, and many more. Dina is the author of two books; the most recent award-winning
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to
Standing Rock. She is currently under contract with Beacon
Press for a new book under the working title
Illegitimate Nation: Privilege, Race, and Accountability in the U.S. Settler State.

Photo: © Rose-Anne Clermont
Rose-Anne Clermont
Moderator
Rose-Anne Clermont, is a Haitian-American journalist, editor and writer who first came to Germany on
a Fulbright Fellowship in 1999. She permanently moved to Berlin two years later and wrote about
migration,
integration, and climate, among other topics, for Clean Energy Wire, Spiegel Online, Die Zeit,
The New York Times and other international media. For almost two years she wrote a weekly column about
identity, race, and politics for Berliner Zeitung. In 2020, Rose-Anne was an English editor at eu2020.de,
Germany’s official EU Council Presidency website. She spent many years working with NGOs that support
journalism in developing countries, and she was a lecturer of journalism at the University for Applied
Sciences
(HMKW). She is the author of a humorous memoir entitled Bushgirl: How I Got Stuck with the
Germans (Random House Germany). Rose-Anne holds a liberal arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College
and a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.