This Closing Plenary was delivered as the official closing of the Tribal Lands and Environment Forum: A Virtual Gathering in August 2020. The closing plenary featured comments from Ann Marie Chischilly, Executive Director of ITEP, Rebecca Stevens, Vice Chair of the Tribal Waste & Response Steering Committee, and Todd Barnell, Waste & Response Project Director of ITEP. Our keynote speaker was Jason Baldes, Board Member of the Inter Tribal Buffalo Council and Executive Director of the Wind River Native Advocacy Center.
