An internationally respected advocate for environmental justice and indigenous peoples, Winona LaDuke is a founding member of Women of All Red Nations and director of the Land Recovery Project on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. At the age 17 she spoke at the UN on behalf of Native Americans. She was the 1996 and 2000 vice-presidential candidate of the Green Party on the Nader/LaDuke ticket, the first Native American to run for national office. She is the award-winning author of Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press, 2005) and All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (South End Press, 1999).

LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg and the mother of three children. As Program Director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network.

In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under 40. Her many awards and honors include the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth.

The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings was published in 2002.