Jade Begay

Innovating Policy and Building Solutions with Communities, Cities, Tribal Nations

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

About

Experience

  • Native American Engagement Director at Harris for President
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council at The White House
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • NDN Collective (Full-time · 5 yrs)
    • Director of Policy and Advocacy
      Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr

    • Climate Justice Director
      Jan 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Creative Director
      Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and the planet.

  • Environmental Justice Movement Fellow at Tishman Environment and Design Center
    2021 - 2023 · 2 yrs

    The Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship supports and aims to grow the capacity of movement leaders to design innovative and disruptive strategies that advance a transformative climate justice agenda on a local, Tribal, national and global scale. The aim of this fellowship is to nurture, test, and deploy contentious, creative, and scalable solutions. We seek to co-create the conditions and curriculum that can best support groups of movement leaders in their efforts to generate and pilot these strategies for movement impact.

  • Creative Team - Chrysalis Project at Allied Media Projects
    Jan 2019 - Aug 2019 · 8 mos