Katsi Cook, Mohawk

Wild Horse Sanctuary, Hot Springs, South Dakota, 2011

Katsi is an Aboriginal Midwife, mother of six and grandmother of seven. Since 1983, she has conducted award-winning environmental justice health research in her home community of Akwesasne, NY. Katsi currently works in Maternal and Child Health qualitative research for the Tribal Epidemiology Center at United South and Eastern Tribes (USET, Inc.), Nashville, Tennessee. She is researching and writing about environmental and reproductive justice issues in Native America.