Biography: Dennis Martinez
Dennis Martinez is of O’odham, Chicano, and Swedish heritage. He has worked in ecocultural restoration for nearly 39 years in temperate terrestrial, tropical terrestrial and aquatic-marine ecosystems as a restoration and ethno-ecologist.
Mr. Martinez is Founder and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network of the Society for Ecological Restoration International and is Co-Director of the Takelma Intertribal Project. He works internationally with community-based Indigenous Peoples on cultural rights, resource access and protection, climate change, forest restoration, and bridging Western Science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge. He is a well-known speaker and writer, has received awards in restoration and social justice, and was an awardee in the Ecotrust-Buffet Award for Indigenous Conservation Leadership in NW North America.
He currently is focusing on climate change, is on the steering committee of the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Assessment, and consults with the National Congress of American Indians and the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Network on Indigenous adaptation and mitigation of climate change.