About Me
I am Anpotowin Jensen from the Kiyuksa Tiospaye of the Oglala Lakota Oyate. I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and graduated with a Master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, where I was the first Native woman on Stanford’s Student Global Health Board. As a writer, author, and poet, I interweave my experiences as an Oglala woman, engineer, and advocate for Indigenous solutions in global health & climate change in my creations.
Some of my advocacy roles have included being an Environmental Health Specialist for the International Indian Treaty Council, a youth representative of the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council, and North American Focal Point of the UN Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. In these capacities, I have delivered testimony on the United Nations floor that led to formal policy recommendations on Indigenous languages & health from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to the World Health Organization (WHO).
My work has been featured in & by Forbes Magazine, the Native American 40 under 40 list, Scope, Grist, the UN Youth Envoy, the Oxford Climate Review, The Lancet, Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, the Journal of Climate Change and Health, and more.
