Michelle Montgomery

Expertise: Climate justice, Indigenous identities and climate change, environmental ethics

Michelle Montgomery (enrolled Haliwa Saponi/descendant Eastern Band Cherokee) is a professor of American Indian Studies and of Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma. Montgomery’s research focuses on Indigenizing and decolonizing the climate justice narrative; environmental ethics connected to Indigenous Peoples’ identities; and eco-critical race theory to eliminate racial and environmental oppression. She is the Assistant Director for the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Director for the Muckleshoot Doctoral Cohort in UW Tacoma School of Education, a member of the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group as well as a council member for Rising Voices: Climate Resilience Through Indigenous and Earth Science. Montgomery is on the board of directors for CURE and Climate Land Leaders. She is also the director and founder of the Indigenous Speaker Series, which launched in 2015.