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Emma Robbins (Diné) is an artist, activist, and community organizer with a passion for empowering Indigenous women. She is the founder and Executive Director of The Chapter House, an Indigenous community and arts space on Tongvaland. Emma is also Managing Director of Planet Women, an organization collaborating with femme-led conservation and human rights groups.

For seven years Emma served as the Executive Director of the Navajo Water Project at DigDeep Water. While there, she collaborated with communities to expand access to clean, running water to the one in three Navajo families without it.

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. Emma serves on the Arizona Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is a senior Aspen Institute Fellow.