Enjoy this interview featuring Julia Bernal! She is a CH '08 alum.

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Julia Bernal is a tribal member from the Pueblo of Sandia and also from the Yuchi nation in Oklahoma. She is currently a dual-degree student at UNM in Water Resources and Community and Regional Planning. She is the current Alliance Director for Pueblo Action Alliance, a grassroots organization that focuses on the environmental, social and racial issues impacting Indigenous communities in the Southwest. Julia has contributed her analysis on environmental issues with her expertise on New Mexico water and environmental policies and organization. Particularly, her focus has remained on the oil and gas industry and how it’s adverse impacts affect the environment, the water and the people. She advocates for the decolonization of water policy and stolen water resources. She has helped PAA build campaigns against carbon pricing, fracking, Land Back and recently #WaterBack.

Instagram: @JuliaFayBernal

Twitter: @JuliaFayBernal

Pueblo Action Alliance website: https://www.puebloactionalliance.org/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).