The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Andrea Carmen
Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council

"The Foundation of Freedom, Justice, and Peace in the World"

Friday, 7th September, 2007 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 5th September to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only
 

Andrea Carmen, Yaqui Indian Nation, has been a staff member of the International Indian Treaty Council since 1983 and IITC’s Executive Director since 1992. Andrea has many years of experience working with Indigenous communities from North, Central, South America and the Pacific. She was a founding member of the Indigenous Initiative for Peace with Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu and has participated as a human rights observer and mediator in crises situations in the US, Chiapas, Mexico and Ecuador. Andrea has extensive experience working at United Nations bodies addressing human rights and Indigenous Peoples, and is IITC’s team leaders for work on the UN Draft Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She was one of two Indigenous representatives at the June 97 UNGASS Earth Summit +5 to formally address the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in history. Andrea has served as an advisor to the World Council of Churches, the North American Indigenous Peoples Bio-Diversity project and the First Nations Development/Eagle Staff Fund Native Food Systems Initiative.

Andrea has served as the co-coordinator for the Chickaloon Village Tribal Environmental Program and a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network National Council, a member of the International Union for the Conservation for Nature (IUCN) Working Group on Extractive Industry and Bio-Diversity, and the Calvert Group Social Investment Advisory Council.

In January 2006, Andrea was selected as an expert participant as well as the Rapporteur for the United Nations “Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples’ permanent sovereignty over natural resources and their relationship to land” in Geneva, the first time an Indigenous woman served as Rapporteur for an UN Expert Seminar. She also served in 200 6 and 2007 as an invited United Nations expert at international seminars on Treaty rights and on Development of Indicators for Indigenous Peoples addressing Biological Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals.

Andrea graduated from the University of California with a Degree in Women's Studies, and was selected, as "Speaker of the Year" by People Are Speaking in San Francisco. She has three sons and two grandchildren.