My name is Kyle and I live in Michigan, in Potawatomi homelands. I am an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In response to Indigenous leaders’ requests to investigate environmental change, I started off nearly two decades ago organizing within Tribal nations in the Great Lakes region to enhance Tribal climate change planning. In so doing, I developed relationships with folks everywhere who have collectively enacted a movement for Indigenous climate justice. Across thousands of places, the movement has demonstrated that Indigenous people have studied climate change for generations and that colonialism is a historic and ongoing cause of climate-induced harms. It’s been crystal clear that respect for Indigenous rights and freedoms, especially Indigenous self-determination in their homelands, is among the very fastest of routes to mitigating climate change. My own projects have focused on the following areas: moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples; Indigenous climate planning, education, and conflict mediation; the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations; and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and “the Anthropocene.” Philosophically, I am learning about kinship-based systems as solutions to address climate change. While my roots are in organizing at Tribal scales, recently I’ve engaged in the development and implementation of some of the new U.S. policies on climate and energy, environmental justice and Indigenous rights, serving in roles for the U.S. White House, State Department, National Academies, and others. I have been working with numerous Tribes and community-based organizations to ensure their success in accessing the new or expanded federal programs. I also teach at the University of Michigan. For the future, I hold out the desire to return to my roots as a local organizer and that I’ll continue to be a land steward where I live.