Faye Brown has been working on Native environmental and human rights issues since 1980, when she joined the volunteer staff of the Black Hills Alliance in South Dakota. It was in South Dakota, while working on stopping uranium mining in the Black Hills, that she met Winona LaDuke and many others in the Honor the Earth family. After the Black Hills Survival Gathering, Faye went to work for political prisoner Leonard Peltier for nine years, coordinating Peltier’s Congressional Campaigns and court hearings, and founding the Leonard Peltier Support Group/Indian Justice Network in Minneapolis, MN. In 1989, Brown began work with Direct Expressions as the public relations coordinator for the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Community, spearheading organizing on behalf of the tribe to stop a nuclear waste dump adjacent to their reservation. The protracted battle ended with the Minnesota legislature authorizing a waste dump in 1994. Brown worked as the Campaign Coordinator for Honor the Earth from 1995-2001, and is very glad to have rejoined the staff in 2008! During her seven year hiatus, she remained involved with Honor as a consultant while managing Native artist John Trudell and working for Angelina Jolie’s All Tribes Foundation.