Sherri Mitchell
Sherri Mitchell, JD, is an indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, and transformational changemaker.
Mitchell is the founding director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the indigenous way of life.
Prior to forming the Land Peace Foundation, she served as a law clerk to the Solicitor of the United States Department of Interior; as an Associate with Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan Law Firm; as a civil rights educator for the Maine Attorney General’s Office, and; as the staff attorney for the Native American Unit of Pine Tree Legal.
In 2010, she received the Mahoney Dunn International Human Rights and Humanitarian Award for research into Human Rights violations against indigenous peoples. In 2015, she received the Spirit of Maine Award for commitment and excellence in the field of international human rights. In 2016, Mitchell's portrait was added to the esteemed portrait series, "Americans Who Tell the Truth," by artist Robert Shetterly. And she is the recipient of the 2017 Hands of Hope Award from the Peace and Justice Center.
She has worked in many capacities over the past 30 years helping to highlight and advance the position of Wabanaki peoples. In addition to helping her own people, Mitchell has been a longtime advisor to the American Indian Institute’s Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth and was a program coordinator for their Healing the Future Program. She also served as an advisor to the Indigenous Elders and Medicine People’s Council of North and South America for the past 20 years. In this role, she has worked with Indigenous spiritual leaders from across the Americas, helping to ensure that their voices are heard within the larger society.
Mitchell is the visionary behind “Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island,” a global healing ceremony that has brought people together from all corners of the world. The ceremony is designed to heal relationships between human beings, and then to heal the relationship between human beings and the rest of Creation. It has been attended by people from every continent except Antarctica, who have come together to pray with one heart and one mind for the healing of all life on Mother Earth.
She is also the cohost of the syndicated radio program Love (and revolution) Radio, which focuses on real-life stories of heart-based activism and revolutionary spiritual change.
