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Emma Robbins is an artist, activist, and community organizer. She is the Managing Director of Planet Women, a nonprofit who partners with women to create a healthy planet for all life. Prior to Planet Women, Emma was Executive Director of the Navajo Water Project, where she collaborated with communities on the Navajo Nation to get clean running water to the one in three Navajo families without it. Emma is also the founder of The Chapter House, an Indigenous women-led community arts space in Los Angeles, designed for Natives, and welcoming all. All her work is centered around community collaboration, education, and Indigenization.

Emma completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied Modern Latin American Art History in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally. Through her artwork, she strives to educate viewers about issues like broken treaties and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. Robbins is a mother, has one Rez dog, and lives in Los Angeles.

Emma has been featured in The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, NPR, and on Erin Brockovich’s podcast, and has lectured at Yale, Brown, MIT and Skoll. She is a senior Aspen Institute Healthy Communities Fellow and is a recipient of the Environmental Leader Award.