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Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with frontline, grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions to build women's leadership, climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future. Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women's Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women's Climate Action Agenda’. She also is honored to serve on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and has been a core organizer of various International Rights of Nature Tribunals. Her writing about climate justice, women in leadership and other topics have been featured in The Guardian,[1]Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, OpenDemocracy and Ecowatch and other publications. She is the author of the book Uprisings for the Earth:Reconnecting Culture with Nature,[2][3] which won the 2011 .[4]